Mourning, Memorial, and the Yizkor Books in Eli Mandel's Out of Place
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4275591 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Christian Riegel (0000-0002-4420-4991, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 50 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 187-204 |
| Publication date | 2017-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Mosaic (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0027-1276 • E-ISSN: 1925-5683 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/mos.2017.a663697 |
| OpenAlex | W2725948040 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 5 |
This essay examines Eli Mandel's long poem Out of Place as a work of mourning and memorial that challenges the efficacy of signification. The poem employs generic attributes of the Yizkor (memorial) books and is a personal and communal monument to the loss of family and community in southern Saskatchewan
Art · Art history · Literature · Poetry · Sociology · American Jewish Fiction Analysis · History · Literature, Politics, and Exile Studies · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration
| Citations per year | 0.13 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2018 - 2018 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |