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Assimilation and Assertion
Rachel Feldhay Brenner
其他書名
The Response to the Holocaust in Mordecai Richler's Writings
出版P. Lang, 1989
主題History / Modern / 20th Century / HolocaustLiterary Criticism / GeneralLiterary Criticism / American / GeneralLiterary Criticism / CanadianSocial Science / Ethnic Studies / GeneralSocial Science / Sociology / General
ISBN08204081159780820408118
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=FOUfAQAAIAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋The book explores the consciousness of the Holocaust in Canadian Jewish literature. Drawing upon Mordecai Richler's work, it examines the predicament of the North American Jew responding to the national catastrophe he did not experience directly. Richler's writing demonstrates Jewish powerlessness intensified through the direct experience of anti-Semitism in Canada in the 1930s and the 1940s and the loss of faith in humanist liberal values emerging from the consciousness of the European tragedy. The study focuses on the literary representations of the post-Holocaust Jewish identity crisis manifested in ideological and emotional vacillations between assimilation and self-assertion.