CONTRASTING TWO SURVIVAL LITERATURES: ON THE JEWISH HOLOCAUST AND THE CHINESE CULTURAL REVOLUTION
Both the Jewish Holocaust literature and the Chinese Cultural Revolution literature are survival literatures that came into being as a result of great disasters. But the literary interpretations of these catastrophes are widely different, shaping the respective racial memory of past suffering. This...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
1987
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Holocaust and genocide studies
Year: 1987, Volume: 2, Issue: 1, Pages: 81-93 |
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| Summary: | Both the Jewish Holocaust literature and the Chinese Cultural Revolution literature are survival literatures that came into being as a result of great disasters. But the literary interpretations of these catastrophes are widely different, shaping the respective racial memory of past suffering. This article explores the dichotomies in three ways: the influence of social context, resulting in metaphysical and political obscurities respectively: revisionism in terms of imaginative and political exploitations of human miseries; the influence of tradition, which posits that the Jewish heritage of suffering and the Chinese heritage of harmony partly account for the disparate perceptions of the tragedies. |
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| ISSN: | 1476-7937 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Holocaust and genocide studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/hgs/2.1.81 |