Using and Abusing the Holocaust, Lawrence L. Langer (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2006), xix + 165 pp., 29.95
Readers familiar with Lawrence Langer's distinguished writings of on Holocaust literature and representation will welcome this new collection. Four of the ten essays are new, and all but one of the others have been revised substantially. Langer is preoccupied with the daunting task of how to wr...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2008
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Holocaust and genocide studies
Year: 2008, Volume: 22, Issue: 1, Pages: 110-112 |
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| Summary: | Readers familiar with Lawrence Langer's distinguished writings of on Holocaust literature and representation will welcome this new collection. Four of the ten essays are new, and all but one of the others have been revised substantially. Langer is preoccupied with the daunting task of how to write about or artistically depict the Holocaust without evading or falsifying the extreme evil of the multiple crimes involved. According to Langer, all too often writers and artists are insufficiently acquainted with the gruesome details of how, when, and where these abominations were carried out, or with the full extent of the traumatic demoralizing effects they had on victims, survivors, and bystanders. |
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| ISSN: | 1476-7937 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Holocaust and genocide studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/hgs/dcn021 |