The Holocaust in the nursery
Anita Desai'sBaumgartner's Bombay
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2178487 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Axel Stähler |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 46 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 76-88 |
| Publication date | 2010-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Postcolonial Writing (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1744-9855 • E-ISSN: 1744-9863 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/17449850903478197 |
| OpenAlex | W2005472514 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 7 |
With particular attention to Anita Desai’s use of German nursery rhymes and children’s songs, this article offers a reading of the Holocaust narrative in her novel Baumgartner’s Bombay in relation to interpretive expectations informed by discourses of the Holocaust and postcolonialism and to the appropriation of the novel to one or the other of these paradigms. It suggests that the novel transcends such interpretive patterns by structurally engaging the reader’s participation in the creation of meaning
Aesthetics · Appropriation · Archaeology · Art · Epistemology · German · Linguistics · Literature · Meaning (existential · Narrative · Postcolonialism (international relations · Psychoanalysis · Reading (process · Relation (database · Sociology · The Holocaust · Theology · Art, Politics, and Modernism · German Colonialism and Identity Studies · Literature and Cultural Memory · Psychology · Gender Studies · History · Philosophy
| Unique citing works | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2026 - 2026 (1) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |