Humor and the Jewish Holocaust Trauma in Shalom Auslander’s Hope: A Tragedy.

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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Humor and the Jewish Holocaust Trauma in Shalom Auslander’s Hope: A Tragedy.
Original language description
The paper focuses on the representation of trauma and the use of humor in the novel Hope: A Tragedy by contemporary American Jewish writer Shalom Auslander. The book follows the fate of the Kugel family moving to the countryside to escape the burden of the past they never experienced. As they live through their imagined horrors, they discover Ann Frank, alive and writing in their attic. The protagonist becomes eventually so absorbed with the past and their guest that he neglects his family, job and resigns from life. The paper addresses the appropriation and intergenerational transmission of the Holocaust trauma by American Jews who never even visited Europe, focusing on the comical aspect and tragic ending of the attempts to escape the collective ethnic legacy, especially when faced with a survivor who challenges the views of the individual members of the family on history, tragedy, trauma and memory.
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Czech description
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Publication year
2018
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Article name in the collection
From Theory to Practice 2016: Proceedings of the eighth International Conference in Anglophone Studies
ISBN
9788074547560
ISSN
1805-9899
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Number of pages
8
Pages from-to
171-178
Publisher name
Univerzita Tomáše Bati ve Zlíně
Place of publication
Zlín
Event location
Zlín
Event date
Sep 8, 2016
Type of event by nationality
EUR - Evropská akce
UT code for WoS article
000456356000015

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