From Budapest to Montreal: Intergenerational Interlacing in Kalman-Naves’ Shoshanna’s Story: A Mother, a Daughter and the Shadows of History
Shoshanna’s Story: A Mother, a Daughter and the Shadows of History, is Elaine Kalman Naves’ autobiobiographical novel, told from the the point of view of a child. It tells the story of her mother Shoshanna, a survivor of the camps, and recounts Naves’ childhood in Budapest in the aftermath of war an...
| Published in: | Religious studies and theology |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Equinox Publ.
2021
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| In: |
Religious studies and theology
Year: 2021, Volume: 40, Issue: 2, Pages: 234-246 |
| Further subjects: | B
Holocaust
B Elaine Kalman Naves B Intergenerational B Motherhood B Survival |
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| Summary: | Shoshanna’s Story: A Mother, a Daughter and the Shadows of History, is Elaine Kalman Naves’ autobiobiographical novel, told from the the point of view of a child. It tells the story of her mother Shoshanna, a survivor of the camps, and recounts Naves’ childhood in Budapest in the aftermath of war and the arrival of the family in Montreal in 1959. An intergenerational link is made through events unfolding between cities, eras, and languages. The narrative interweaves past and present, Europe, and the New World, the dead, and the living. The birth of the girl, Naves, born after the war arouses joy mixed with sadness. The baby is dressed in clothes that belonged to murdered children. Like the layers of strudel dough made by Shoshanna, and the swaddles enveloping the little girl’s buttocks, the generations overlap, dynamically metaphorizing the temporal and spatial layers and restoring their reality to the victims of history. |
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| ISSN: | 1747-5414 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Religious studies and theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1558/rst.21475 |