Inventing history: toward a gay Holocaust literature

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Despite the non-existence of a body of literature written by gay Holocaust survivors, a subsequent generation of homosexuals may be able to create a viable historical literature on this subject. Martin Sherman's play 'Bent' is an example of the type of Holocaust literature that can be created by a imaginative non-historical witness who uses known information. Kierkegaard argues for the concept of a witness based on historical knowledge rather than historical presence, a concept which serves as a validating premise for the development of this type of Holocaust literature.

Gays, Portrayals, Bent (Play), Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature, Sherman, Martin (American playwright)

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Holocaust memory between cosmopolitanism and nation - specificity: Monika Maron's Pawels Briefe and Jaroslaw Rymkiewicz's Umschlagplatz

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The critical question that arises in relation to Holocaust memory is with regard to the similarity of its stories and images, read and written in the same way in various national contexts. An analysis of two postmemorial texts written in two languages, German and Polish, and by Monika Maron and Jaroslaw Rymkiewicz is presented. These texts are driven by the dynamic between nation specific and memorization of the Holocaust.

Analysis, International aspects, Works, Maron, Monika, Holocaust memorials, Rymkiewicz, Jaroslaw

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Pleasures of fear: antifascist myth, holocaust, and soft dissidence in Christa Wolf's Kindheitsmuster

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Christa Wolf's novel Kindheitsmuster rewrites the state's antifascist master narrative that exposed and contained a contestation of antifascism as a discourse of power. It is believed that fear poses the obstacle towards the realm of the unspoken.

Novelists, Wolf, Christa, Kindheitsmuster (Book)

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