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050 00 $aPS225$b.R67 2005
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100 1 $aRosen, Alan$q(Alan Charles)
245 10 $aSounds of defiance :$bthe Holocaust, multilingualism, and the problem of English /$cAlan Rosen.
260 $aLincoln :$bUniversity of Nebraska Press,$cc2005.
300 $axiv, 248 p. ;$c24 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [191]-241) and index.
505 00 $tIntroduction : everything is all right, or the problem of English writing on the Holocaust -- $t1950 : English in the aftermath -- $g1.$tEvidence of trauma : English as perplexity in David Boder's Topical autobiographies -- $g2.$tAn entirely different culture : English as translation in John Hersey's The wall -- $g3.$tWhat does he speak? : English as mastery in Ruth Chatterton's Homeward borne -- $t1960 : law's languages, Eichmann, and after -- $g4.$tPlease speak English : babbling in Philip Roth's "Eli, the fanatic" -- $g5.$tFrom law to outlaw : borrowed English in Edward Wallant's The pawnbroker -- $g6.$tLaw's languages : Hannah Arendt's mother and other tongues -- $g7.$tSay "good boy" : legitimizing English in Sidney Lumet's The pawnbroker -- $g8.$tCracking her teeth : broken English in Cynthia Ozick's fiction and essays -- $g9.$tThe language of dollars : English as intruder in Yaffa Eliach's Hasidic tales of the Holocaust -- $g10.$tThe language of survival : English as metaphor in Art Spiegelman's Maus -- $g11.$tEaten away by silence : English as elegy in Anne Michaels's Fugitive pieces -- $tConclusion : in the thick of the fray, or English as the third tongue.
520 1 $a"Language has frequently been at the center of discussions about Holocaust writing. Yet English, a primary language of neither the persecutors nor the victims, has generally been viewed as marginal to the events of the Holocaust. Alan Rosen argues that this marginal status profoundly affects writing on the Holocaust in English and fundamentally shapes our understanding of the events. Sounds of Defiance chronicles the evolving status of English in writing about the Holocaust, from the Second World War to the 1990s." "Each chapter highlights a representative work from a different genre - psychology, sociology, memoir, tales, fiction, and film - and examines the special position of English with regard to the Holocaust, supported by references to the role of other languages, including Hebrew, Yiddish, and German."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aAmerican literature$y20th century$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aEnglish language$xSpoken English.
650 0 $aHolocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature.
650 0 $aSpeech in literature.
650 0 $aEnglish language$xSocial aspects.
650 0 $aEnglish language$xStyle.
856 41 $3Table of contents$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip056/2005001442.html
852 00 $bglx$hPS225$i.R67 2005