Transmitted Holocaust Trauma
A Matter of Myth and Fairy Tales
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20289222 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Philippe Codde (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 42 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Publication date | 2009-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | European Judaism (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0014-3006 • E-ISSN: 1752-2323 |
| Publisher | Berghahn Books (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.3167/ej.2009.420107 |
| OpenAlex | W2042473793 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 10 |
This essay will examine the concept of third-generation trauma after the Holocaust and the ways in which Jewish American novelists seek to access, recreate and artistically represent (or 're-present') such a traumatic past that is by definition inaccessible. A striking feature in the novels by the latest generation of Jewish American writers – notably the work of Jonathan Safran Foer and Judy Budnitz – is the almost obsessive return to mythology and fairy tales in the literary recreation of their grandparents' era. My essay will argue that this is due to a commonality of purpose that characterizes and drives both mythology and fairy tales on the one hand, and the third generation's imaginative, postmemorial approach to the past on the other hand
Archaeology · Art · Grandparent · Judaism · Linguistics · Literature · Mythology · Psychoanalysis · The Holocaust · Theology · Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies · History · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration · Philosophy · Psychology · Themes in Literature Analysis
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Intertextuality and Archetype Transformation as the Polysemy Basis of the Modern Reimagined Fairy Tale
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Philippe Claudel’s Brodeck as a parody of the fable or the Holocaust universalized
Slanting the Holocaust in the Fairy Tale Form
War Memory, Psychological Trauma, and Literary Witnessing
| Citations per year | 0.67 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2011 - 2026 (16) |
| Highly cited | No |