Pettitt, Joanne (2016) Some Thoughts on Perpetrator Metafiction: David Albahari’s Götz and Meyer and Norman Spinrad’s The Iron Dream. Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction, 57 (4). pp. 477-485. ISSN 0011-1619. (doi:10.1080/00111619.2015.1121859) (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided) (KAR id:68793)
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/00111619.2015.1121859 |
Abstract
This article aims to explore the significance of metafiction as an appropriate mode for representation in Holocaust perpetrator fiction. Looking at two pertinent examples—David Albahari’s Götz and Meyer (1998) and Norman Spinrad’s The Iron Dream (1972)—it argues that the movement between the diegetic and extradiegetic narrative spaces allows for an encoding of imaginative processes that promote postmemorial discourses. This process is important at this juncture, when the Holocaust is sliding out of living memory, because it emphasizes the need to continually re-engage with the past, thereby retaining its significance in the present.
Item Type: | Article |
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DOI/Identification number: | 10.1080/00111619.2015.1121859 |
Uncontrolled keywords: | Holocaust, perpetrator metafiction, postmemory |
Divisions: | Divisions > Division of Arts and Humanities > School of Culture and Languages |
Depositing User: | Joanne Pettitt |
Date Deposited: | 24 Aug 2018 12:03 UTC |
Last Modified: | 05 Nov 2024 12:30 UTC |
Resource URI: | https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/68793 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes) |
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