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  1. War of No Pity :
    The Indian Mutiny and Victorian Trauma /
    Author: Herbert, Christopher,
    Published: [2021]; ©2007
    Publisher:  Princeton University Press,, Princeton, NJ :

    On May 11, 1857, Hindu and Muslim sepoys massacred British residents and native Christians in Delhi, setting off both the whirlwind of similar violence that engulfed Bengal in the following months and an answering wave of rhetorical violence in... more

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    On May 11, 1857, Hindu and Muslim sepoys massacred British residents and native Christians in Delhi, setting off both the whirlwind of similar violence that engulfed Bengal in the following months and an answering wave of rhetorical violence in Britain, where the uprising against British rule in India was often portrayed as a clash of civilization and barbarity demanding merciless retribution. Although by twentieth-century standards the number of victims was small, the Victorian public saw "the Indian Mutiny" of 1857-59 as an epochal event. In this provocative book, Christopher Herbert seeks to discover why. He offers a view of this episode--and of Victorian imperialist culture more generally--sharply at odds with the standard formulations of postcolonial scholarship. Drawing on a wealth of largely overlooked and often mesmerizing nineteenth-century texts, including memoirs, histories, letters, works of journalism, and novels, War of No Pity shows that the startling ferocity of the conflict in India provoked a crisis of national conscience and a series of searing if often painfully ambivalent condemnations of British actions in India both prior to and during the war. Bringing to light the dissident, disillusioned, antipatriotic strain of Victorian "mutiny writing," Herbert locates in it key forerunners of modern-day antiwar literature and the modern critique of racism.

     
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  2. The Consolations of Writing :
    Literary Strategies of Resistance from Boethius to Primo Levi /
    Author: Zim, Rivkah,
    Published: [2014]; ©2014
    Publisher:  Princeton University Press,, Princeton, NJ :

    Boethius wrote The Consolation of Philosophy as a prisoner condemned to death for treason, circumstances that are reflected in the themes and concerns of its evocative poetry and dialogue between the prisoner and his mentor, Lady Philosophy. This... more

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    Boethius wrote The Consolation of Philosophy as a prisoner condemned to death for treason, circumstances that are reflected in the themes and concerns of its evocative poetry and dialogue between the prisoner and his mentor, Lady Philosophy. This classic philosophical statement of late antiquity has had an enduring influence on Western thought. It is also the earliest example of what Rivkah Zim identifies as a distinctive and vitally important medium of literary resistance: writing in captivity by prisoners of conscience and persecuted minorities.The Consolations of Writing reveals why the great contributors to this tradition of prison writing are among the most crucial figures in Western literature. Zim pairs writers from different periods and cultural settings, carefully examining the rhetorical strategies they used in captivity, often under the threat of death. She looks at Boethius and Dietrich Bonhoeffer as philosophers and theologians writing in defense of their ideas, and Thomas More and Antonio Gramsci as politicians in dialogue with established concepts of church and state. Different ideas of grace and disgrace occupied John Bunyan and Oscar Wilde in prison; Madame Roland and Anne Frank wrote themselves into history in various forms of memoir; and Jean Cassou and Irina Ratushinskaya voiced their resistance to totalitarianism through lyric poetry that saved their lives and inspired others. Finally, Primo Levi's writing after his release from Auschwitz recalls and decodes the obscenity of systematic genocide and its aftermath.A moving and powerful testament, The Consolations of Writing speaks to some of the most profound questions about life, enriching our understanding of what it is to be human.

     
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  3. My shadow in Dachau :
    poems /
    Contributor: Heiser, Dorothea, (editor.); Taberner, Stuart, (editor.)
    Published: 2014.
    Publisher:  Camden House,, Rochester, New York :

    The concentration camp at Dachau was the first established by the Nazis, opened shortly after Hitler came to power in 1933. It first held political prisoners, but later also forced laborers, Soviet POWs, Jews, and other "undesirables." More than... more

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    The concentration camp at Dachau was the first established by the Nazis, opened shortly after Hitler came to power in 1933. It first held political prisoners, but later also forced laborers, Soviet POWs, Jews, and other "undesirables." More than 30,000 deaths were documented there, with many more unrecorded. In the midst of the horror, some inmates turned to poetry to provide comfort, to preserve their sense of humanity, or to document their experiences. Some were or would later become established poets; others were prominent politicians or theologians; still others were ordinary men and women. This anthology contains 68 poems by 32 inmates of Dachau, in 10 different original languages and facing-page English translation, along with short biographies. A prologue by Walter Jens and an introduction by Dorothea Heiser from the original German edition are joined here by a foreword by Stuart Taberner of the University of Leeds. All the poems, having arisen in the experience or memory of extreme human suffering, are testimonies to the persistence of the humanity and creativity of the individual. They are also a warning not to forget the darkest chapter of history and a challenge to the future not to allow it to be repeated. Dorothea Heiser holds an MA from the University of Freiburg. Stuart Taberner is Professor of Contemporary German Literature, Culture, and Society at the University of Leeds.

     
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    Source: Philologische Bibliothek, FU Berlin; Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
    Contributor: Heiser, Dorothea, (editor.); Taberner, Stuart, (editor.)
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 1-57113-897-8
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    Series: Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture
    Subjects: Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
    Other subjects: Dachau Concentration Camp.; creativity.; extreme suffering.; genocide.; holocaust.; humanity.; individual.; inmates.; memory.; poetry.; suffering.; testimonies.
    Scope: 1 online resource (xxviii, 286 pages) :, digital, PDF file(s).
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    Includes bibliographical references and index.

    Frontcover; Contents; Acknowledgments; A Note on Permissions; Foreword to the English-Language Edition; Foreword; Introduction; Part I. Camp Life: The Reality 1933-1945; Karel Parcer, Slovenia, biography; Ob vstopu v taborišče smrti; On Entering the Death Camp; Feliks Rak, Poland, biography; Dachau wśród słońca; Dachau beneath the Sun; Edgar Kupfer-Koberwitz, Germany, biography; Kette der Tage; Chain of Days; Gestreiftes Kleid; Striped Clothes; Jura Soyfer, Austria, biography; Dachau-Lied; Dachau Song; Maria Johanna Vaders, The Netherlands, biography; Bunker Dachau; Dachau Bunker

    František Kadlec, Czech RepublicVe stínu sedmi strážních věží; In the Shadow of Seven Watchtowers; Neutrální zona; No-Man's-Land; Mirco Giuseppe Camia, Italy, biography; La conta; The Count; Il Kapo; The Kapo; Michel Jacques, France, biography; Voyage; Journey; Jeu d'enfant; Child's Game; Eugène Malzac, France, biography; Les squelettes vivants; Living Skeletons; Henri Pouzol, France, biography; Aube au Block 30 à Dachau; Dawn at Block 30 in Dachau; France Černe, Slovenia, biography; Smrt v Dachau; Death at Dachau; Father Karl Schmidt, Germany, biography; Und die Tage sind grau . . .

    And the Days Are Grey . . .László Salamon, Romania (Hungarian mother tongue), biography; Kaufering; Kaufering; Franc Dermastja-Som, Slovenia, biography; Skupen Grob; Shared Grave; Part II. Searching for the Purpose of Suffering: Despair-Accusation-Hope; László Salamon, Romania (Hungarian mother tongue); Örök Gyász; Endless Mourning; Felejteni; Forgetting; Feliks Rak, Poland; Za drutami; Behind the Wire; Czerwone róże w Dachau; Red Roses in Dachau; Bojan Ajdič, Slovenia, biography; Slutnja; Premonition; Sylvain Gutmacker, Belgium, biography; Tristesse; Sadness; Regrets; Regrets

    Persécution . . .Persecution . . .; Roman Gebler, Germany, biography; Leben (Dachau 1933); Life (Dachau 1933); Still über Nacht (Dachau 1938); In the Night-Time Quiet (Dachau 1938); Dachau 1940; Dachau 1940; Fabien Lacombe, France, biography; La Semaine; The Week; Michel Jacques, France; Lucidité; Lucidity; Sur la route; On the Road; Josef Schneeweiss, Austria, biography; Jeder Schritt; Every Step; Draußen seh ich . . .; Outside I Can See . . .; Arthur Haulot, Belgium, biography; Contraste; Contrast; Richard Scheid, Germany, biography; Vision in Erwartung des Todes

    Vision in Anticipation of DeathLebenswende; Life Transformation; Josef Massetkin, Russia, biography; Mutti kommt im Sommer; Mummy Is Coming in the Summer; Christoph Hackethal, Germany, biography; Todesahnung; Premonition of Death; Werner Sylten, Germany, biography; Gebet; Prayer; Mirco Giuseppe Camia, Italy; Il martire; The Martyr; Nevio Vitelli, Italy, biography; La mia ombra a Dachau; My Shadow in Dachau; Stanisław Wygodzki, Poland, biography; Ojcu; To My Father; Żona; My Wife; List w noc; A Letter into the Night; Modlitwa; A Prayer; Part III. The Liberation: Dachau, April 29, 1945

    Levi Shalit, Israel, biography
  4. Fragments of hell :
    Israeli Holocaust literature /
    Author: Abramovich, Dvir,
    Published: 2019.
    Publisher:  Academic Press,, Brighton, Massachusetts :

    In this compelling and engaging book, Dvir Abramovich introduces readers to several landmark novels, poems and stories that have become classics in the Israeli Holocaust canon. Discussed are iconic writers such as Aharon Appelfeld, Dan Pagis, Etgar... more

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    In this compelling and engaging book, Dvir Abramovich introduces readers to several landmark novels, poems and stories that have become classics in the Israeli Holocaust canon. Discussed are iconic writers such as Aharon Appelfeld, Dan Pagis, Etgar Keret, Yoram Kaniuk, Uri Tzvi Greenberg and Ka-Tzetnik, and their attempts to come to terms with the unprecedented trauma and its aftereffects. Scholarly, yet deeply accessible to both students and to the public, this illuminating volume offers a wide-ranging introduction to the intersection between literature and the Shoah, and the linguistic, stylistic and ethical difficulties inherent in representing this catastrophe in fiction. Exploring narratives by survivors and by those who wrote about the European genocide from a distance, each chapter contains a compassionate and thoughtful analysis of the author's individual opus, accompanied by a comprehensive exploration of their biography and the major themes that underpin their corpus. The rich and sophisticated discussions and interpretations contained in this masterful set of essays are sure to become essential reading for those seeking to better understand the responses by Hebrew writers to the immense tragedy that befell their people.

     
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    Source: Philologische Bibliothek, FU Berlin
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 1-64469-005-5
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    Edition: 1st ed.
    Subjects: Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature.; Israeli literature
    Other subjects: Aharon Appelfeld.; Dan Pagis.; Etgar Keret.; Holocaust remembrance.; Holocaust.; Israel.; Israeli culture.; Israeli literature.; Jewish literature.; Ka-Tzetnik.; Uri Tzvi Greenberg.; Yoram Kaniuk.; genocide.; history.; memory.; survivors.
    Scope: 1 online resource (144 pages)
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    Issued also in print.
  5. Fragments of Hell :
    Israeli Holocaust Literature /
    Author: Abramovich, Dvir,
    Published: [2019]; ©2019
    Publisher:  Academic Studies Press,, Boston, MA :

    In this compelling and engaging book, Dvir Abramovich introduces readers to several landmark novels, poems and stories that have become classics in the Israeli Holocaust canon. Discussed are iconic writers such as Aharon Appelfeld, Dan Pagis, Etgar... more

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    In this compelling and engaging book, Dvir Abramovich introduces readers to several landmark novels, poems and stories that have become classics in the Israeli Holocaust canon. Discussed are iconic writers such as Aharon Appelfeld, Dan Pagis, Etgar Keret, Yoram Kaniuk, Uri Tzvi Greenberg and Ka-Tzetnik, and their attempts to come to terms with the unprecedented trauma and its aftereffects. Scholarly, yet deeply accessible to both students and to the public, this illuminating volume offers a wide-ranging introduction to the intersection between literature and the Shoah, and the linguistic, stylistic and ethical difficulties inherent in representing this catastrophe in fiction. Exploring narratives by survivors and by those who wrote about the European genocide from a distance, each chapter contains a compassionate and thoughtful analysis of the author’s individual opus, accompanied by a comprehensive exploration of their biography and the major themes that underpin their corpus. The rich and sophisticated discussions and interpretations contained in this masterful set of essays are sure to become essential reading for those seeking to better understand the responses by Hebrew writers to the immense tragedy that befell their people.

     
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