“My Holocaust Is Not Your Holocaust”: “Facing” Black and Jewish Experience in The Pawnbroker, Higher Ground, and The Nature of Blood

What is to be gained by drawing literary comparisons between the African Diaspora experience of slavery and the Jewish experience of the Holocaust? Can such comparisons be made without distorting the historical record? This article critiques the juxtaposition of tragedy found in The Pawnbroker—both...

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Main Author: Zierler, Wendy (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Oxford University Press 2004
In: Holocaust and genocide studies
Year: 2004, Volume: 18, Issue: 1, Pages: 46-67
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