Poetry After Auschwitz

Remembering What One Never Knew

By:

Susan Gubar

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Paperback / softback

Series:

Jewish Literature and Culture

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In this pathbreaking study, Susan Gubar demonstrates that Theodor Adorno's famous injunction against writing poetry after Auschwitz paradoxically inspired an ongoing literary tradition. From the 1960s to the present, as the Shoah receded into a more remote European past, many contemporary writers grappled with personal and political, ethical and aesthetic consequences of the disaster. By speaking about or even as the dead, these poets tell what it means to cite, reconfigure, consume, or envy the traumatic memories of an earlier generation. This moving meditation by a major feminist critic finds in poetry a stimulant to empathy that can help us take to heart what we forget at our own peril.

Author Biography:

Susan Gubar is Distinguished Professor of English at Indiana University. Her two most recent publications are Racechanges: White Skin, Black Face in American Culture and Critical Condition: Feminism at the Turn of the Century.

Release date Australia

October 18th, 2006

Author

Susan Gubar

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Illustrations

20 b&w photos, 1 color photos

Pages

340

Series

Jewish Literature and Culture

Dimensions

152x229x23

ISBN-13

9780253218872

Product ID

4358269

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