Narratives of Annihilation, Confinement, and Survival

Camp Literature in a Transnational Perspective

Anja Tippner, Anna Artwińska (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

VI, 280 Seiten

2021
De Gruyter (Verlag)
978-3-11-076456-7 (ISBN)

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The concept of “camp narratives” rather than “Holocaust narratives” or “Gulag narratives” is based on the assumption that literary accounts of camp experiences share common traits, aesthetically as well as thematically. The book presents readings of camp literature that underscore the similarities between texts about Soviet gulag camps, Nazi camps and about other camp experiences. While literature about Nazi concentration camps still serves as a point of reference for camp narratives in the same way that the Holocaust serves as a point of reference for other genocidal operations, socialist labor and penal camps have become transnational lieux de mémoire in their own right since 1989. This volume intends to provide a theoretical frame as well as an overview of several important European camp literatures and case studies of iconic camp narratives and to take a comparative and transnational perspective on the genre of the camp narrative.

Anja Tippner, University of Hamburg, Germany; Anna Artwinska, University of Leipzig, Germany.

Erscheinungsdatum	07.09.2021
Reihe/Serie	Culture & Conflict ; 14
Verlagsort	Berlin/Boston
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 230 mm
Gewicht	583 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
Schlagworte	Camp narratives • Culture of Remembrance • Gulag literature • Holocaust Literature
ISBN-10	3-11-076456-3 / 3110764563
ISBN-13	978-3-11-076456-7 / 9783110764567
Zustand	Neuware