Magical Realism and Allegory in Joseph Skibell's A Blessing on the Moon

Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F61988987%3A17250%2F17%3AA1801RVA" target="_blank" >RIV/61988987:17250/17:A1801RVA - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="http://hdl.handle.net/11222.digilib/137609" target="_blank" >http://hdl.handle.net/11222.digilib/137609</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.5817/BSE2017-2-5" target="_blank" >10.5817/BSE2017-2-5</a>

Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Magical Realism and Allegory in Joseph Skibell's A Blessing on the Moon
Original language description
This paper analyzes Skibell's novel A Blessing on the Moon (1997), focusing on elements of the book's magical realism and allegory. It sets out to interpret Skibell's transposition of the Holocaust to his own experience as a representative of the post-Holocaust generation. Finally, the paper explores the ethical problems of this approach to the Holocaust - an approach that relies heavily on imagination. The interpretation of Skibell's novel demonstrates that the imaginative enactment of the tragic traumatic events cannot be dismissed as a mere appropriation of the Holocaust or as a form of "identity theft"; instead it must be seen as the author's genuine attempt to come to terms with the original trauma of his ancestors. In Skibell's case it is his great-grandfather Chaim Skibelski whose voice was silenced in the war and who becomes the protagonist of the novel.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Type
J<sub>SC</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60206 - Specific literatures

Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year
2017
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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