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Living with “the Post-Holocaust DNA”: Eleanor Reissa’s (Auto-)Biographical Translation of the European Past into American Present in The Last Survivor

The result's identifiers

  • Result code in IS VaVaI

    <a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F47813059%3A19240%2F23%3AA0001148" target="_blank" >RIV/47813059:19240/23:A0001148 - isvavai.cz</a>

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  • DOI - Digital Object Identifier

Alternative languages

  • Result language

    angličtina

  • Original language name

    Living with “the Post-Holocaust DNA”: Eleanor Reissa’s (Auto-)Biographical Translation of the European Past into American Present in The Last Survivor

  • Original language description

    The paper discusses the forms and impact of the post-Holocaust trauma in the theatrical production of a current playwright, Yiddishist, singer, and director Eleanor Reissa. Her collection The Last Survivor and Other Modern Jewish Plays (2015) offers to a large extent (auto)biographical representation of various types of traumatic experience of the Holocaust survivors and as well as the impact of the intergenerational trauma transmission on their descendants. The paper focuses on the complex representation of multiple layers of trauma on a personal, communal, and national level, addressing the negotiations of ethnic, national, and gender identities. It further explores the medium of drama, more specifically the use of dramatic methods that enhance the sense of immediacy and heighten the impact of the utterances. Reissa’s non-didactic and deeply personal approach in connection with the use of dramatic monologues demonstrate the topicality of the Holocaust-related trauma, and more importantly, highlights the role of trauma in the identity-making process, which is both personal and universal. Besides featuring of the traumatic experience, the paper discusses the attempts at healing and the coping mechanisms, including breaking the silence and sharing of stories, that prevent the trauma from becoming the major determinant of one’s identity and empower the protagonists to live in the present.

  • Czech name

  • Czech description

Classification

  • Type

    C - Chapter in a specialist book

  • CEP classification

  • OECD FORD branch

    60206 - Specific literatures

Result continuities

  • Project

  • Continuities

    S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Others

  • Publication year

    2023

  • Confidentiality

    S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Data specific for result type

  • Book/collection name

    Transformations of Trauma in Women's Writing

  • ISBN

    9781527591622

  • Number of pages of the result

    12

  • Pages from-to

    63-74

  • Number of pages of the book

    169

  • Publisher name

    Cambridge Scholars

  • Place of publication

    Cambridge

  • UT code for WoS chapter