Sounding Through Silence: Inter-Generational Voicings in Memoir, Memory, and Postmodernity

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dc.contributor.authorBhandar, Veronica Maria Delphine
dc.contributor.supervisorThorson, Helga
dc.date.accessioned2014-04-07T22:24:39Z
dc.date.available2014-04-07T22:24:39Z
dc.date.copyright2013en_US
dc.date.issued2014-04-07
dc.degree.departmentDepartment of Germanic and Russian Studies
dc.degree.departmentDepartment of Germanic and Slavic Studies
dc.degree.departmentSchool of Languages, Linguistics and Cultures
dc.degree.levelMaster of Arts M.A.en_US
dc.description.abstractThis thesis brings together two disciplines—creative non-fiction memoir and literary/historical critique—that seek to open avenues of discourse with regard to the legacy of the Second World War and the Holocaust for subsequent generations. Ruth Kluger’s Holocaust memoir weiter leben: Eine Jugend and its English Language version written ten years later, Still Alive: A Holocaust Girlhood Remembered, are analyzed for their postmodernist challenge to traditional notions of testimony and genre. W. G. Sebald’s novel The Emigrants is examined for its “imagetext” constructions that act to elucidate aspects of mourning and Vergangenheitsbewältigung (dealing with the past). This thesis is a post-structuralist approach that performs, through memoir, the construction of identity/subjectivity, but it is also a journey, performed in the spirit of belated mourning, that is part of the larger historical postwar discourse regarding the inability to mourn.en_US
dc.description.proquestcode0311en_US
dc.description.proquestcode0298en_US
dc.description.proquestemailvbhandar@uvic.caen_US
dc.description.scholarlevelGraduateen_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1828/5238
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.rights.tempAvailable to the World Wide Weben_US
dc.subjectHolocausten_US
dc.subjectSecond World Waren_US
dc.subjectGermanyen_US
dc.subjectmemoiren_US
dc.titleSounding Through Silence: Inter-Generational Voicings in Memoir, Memory, and Postmodernityen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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