Traumatic Verses: On Poetry in German from the Concentration Camps, 1933–1945, Andrés Nader (Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2007), x + 258 pp., cloth 80.00
The theoretical and methodological mode of Andrés Nader's prize-winning Traumatic Verses is familiar. Nader shows how the ongoing or traumatic effects of violence trouble the division between life in the camps and the life of survival. He considers the meaning and legitimacy of Adorno's ap...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2009
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Holocaust and genocide studies
Year: 2009, Volume: 23, Issue: 1, Pages: 115-117 |
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| Summary: | The theoretical and methodological mode of Andrés Nader's prize-winning Traumatic Verses is familiar. Nader shows how the ongoing or traumatic effects of violence trouble the division between life in the camps and the life of survival. He considers the meaning and legitimacy of Adorno's apparent prohibition against writing poetry after Auschwitz, and he draws heavily on the work of recent critics, including Dominick LaCapra, Lawrence Langer, and Susan Gubar to elaborate his points. Yet what distinguishes this book as a bold contribution to Holocaust studies is Nader's choice of texts., Traumatic Verses is not a study of poetry by survivors, nor is it a study of survivor testimony (sometimes called “post-Holocaust literature”). |
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| ISSN: | 1476-7937 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Holocaust and genocide studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/hgs/dcp009 |