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Imagining the Unimaginable: Speculative Fiction and the Holocaust

Imagining the Unimaginable: Speculative Fiction and the Holocaust

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Wydawnictwo Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Data wydania 23/01/2020
Liczba stron 222
Forma publikacji książka w twardej oprawie
Poziom zaawansowania Dla szkół wyższych i kształcenia podyplomowego
Język angielski
ISBN 9781501350542
Kategorie Studia literackie: od 1900
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$147.38 / €140.47 / £121.95 /
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Imagining the Unimaginable examines popular fiction's treatment of the Holocaust in the dystopian and alternate history genres of speculative fiction, analyzing the effectiveness of the genre's major works as a lens through which to view the most prominent historical trauma of the 20th century. It surveys a range of British and American authors, from science fiction pulp to Pulitzer Prize winners, building on scholarship across disciplines, including Holocaust studies, trauma studies, and science fiction studies.

The conventional discourse around the Holocaust is one of the unapproachable, unknowable, and the unimaginable. The Holocaust has been compared to an earthquake, another planet, another universe, a void. It has been said to be beyond language, or else have its own incomprehensible language, beyond art, and beyond thought.

The 'othering' of the event has spurred the phenomenon of non-realist Holocaust literature, engaging with speculative fiction and its history of the uncanny, the grotesque, and the inhuman. This book examines the most common forms of nonmimetic Holocaust fiction, the dystopia and the alternate history, while firmly positioning these forms within a broader pattern of non-realist engagements with the Holocaust. At once theoretically sophisticated and readable, Glyn Morgan's study makes a notable contribution to the field of Holocaust literature by showing how Anglo-American speculative fiction - a genre encompassing science fiction, fantasy, and alternate history - has reflected, as well as shaped, the evolving memory of the Holocaust. * Gavriel D. Rosenfeld, Professor of History, Fairfield University, USA * Expanding the canon and extending the debate about representation, this thoughtful, wide-ranging and critically-aware book charts new territory in our understanding both of the Holocaust and of speculative fiction. * Robert Eaglestone, Professor of Contemporary Literature and Thought, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK *

Imagining the Unimaginable: Speculative Fiction and the Holocaust

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Acknowledgments

Introduction: Fictionalising the Holocaust

1. Precursors and Early Texts: Swastika Night (1937) and the Myth of Silence

2. Problematizing History: The Man in the High Castle (1962), Fatherland (1992), and Making History (1996)

3. The Damned and the Saved: The Boys from Brazil (1976), The Portage to San Cristobal of A.H. (1981), Hope: A Tragedy (2012), and The Yiddish Policeman's Union (2007)

4. Reimagining Horror: The Plot Against America (2004), Farthing (2006), A Man Lies Dreaming (2014), and J (2014)

Epilogue: Further Fabulation

Notes

Bibliography

Index

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