The Liminal Case of British-Jewish Women’s Autobiographical Writings
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8865764 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Silvia Pellicer-Ortín (0000-0001-8928-7295, Universidad de Zaragoza, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 99 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 661-687 |
| Publication date | 2018-07-17 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | English Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0013-838X • E-ISSN: 1744-4217 |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/0013838x.2018.1492232 |
| OpenAlex | W2884259079 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 23 |
This article explores three works by British-Jewish women writers—Louise Kehoe’s In This Dark House, Lisa Appignanesi’s Losing the Dead and Linda Grant’s The People on the Street—in order to contextualise their writings within the “memoir boom” that occurred in the field of the humanities at the turn of the millennium. By applying a narratological and rhetorical reading and drawing on the theories recently formulated in the fields of trauma, memory and Holocaust studies, I will demonstrate that these texts exemplify the contemporary trend of hybrid life-writing narratives created by British-Jewish women writers, finally showing that this group of authors has greatly contributed to the development of new liminal autobiographical practices. Even though these three works represent diverse events related to migration and trauma, they present some recurrent narrative patterns which are paradigmatic of the way contemporary British-Jewish women are attempting to reconstruct their own and their family memories in their literary and autobiographical creations
Archaeology · Art · Judaism · Liminality · Cultural History and Identity Formation · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Jewish Identity and Society · History
The Limits of Autobiography
Trauma Fiction
Renegotiating Ethics in Literature, Philosophy, and Theory
Anglophone Jewish Literature
Between ‘Race’ and Culture
Anglo-Jewish Women Writing the Holocaust
Women's Autobiography
Post-War Jewish Fiction
The Holocaust, the Uncanny, and the Jewish Sense of History
Jewish Memory between Exile and History
The Postmodern Condition
| Unique citing works | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,17 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2020 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |