Humor and the Jewish Holocaust Trauma in Shalom Auslander’s
Hope: A Tragedy.

D 2018

Humor and the Jewish Holocaust Trauma in Shalom Auslander’s Hope: A Tragedy.

WEISS, Michaela

Basic information

Original name

Humor and the Jewish Holocaust Trauma in Shalom Auslander’s Hope: A Tragedy.

Authors

WEISS, Michaela (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution)

Edition

1. vyd. Zlín, From Theory to Practice 2016: Proceedings of the eighth International Conference in Anglophone Studies, p. 171-178, 8 pp. 2018

Publisher

Univerzita Tomáše Bati ve Zlíně

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Stať ve sborníku

Field of Study

60206 Specific literatures

Country of publisher

Czech Republic

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Publication form

printed version "print"

References:

URL

RIV identification code

RIV/47813059:19240/18:A0000298

Organization unit

Faculty of Philosophy and Science in Opava

ISBN

978-80-7454-756-0

ISSN

UT WoS

000456356000015

Keywords in English

trauma; Shalom Auslander; Holocaust fiction; Jewish humor; contemporary American Jewish literature

Abstract

V originále

The paper focuses on the representation of trauma and the use of humor in the novel Hope: A Tragedy by contemporary American Jewish writer Shalom Auslander. The book follows the fate of the Kugel family moving to the countryside to escape the burden of the past they never experienced. As they live through their imagined horrors, they discover Ann Frank, alive and writing in their attic. The protagonist becomes eventually so absorbed with the past and their guest that he neglects his family, job and resigns from life. The paper addresses the appropriation and intergenerational transmission of the Holocaust trauma by American Jews who never even visited Europe, focusing on the comical aspect and tragic ending of the attempts to escape the collective ethnic legacy, especially when faced with a survivor who challenges the views of the individual members of the family on history, tragedy, trauma and memory.

Citovat

WEISS, Michaela. Humor and the Jewish Holocaust Trauma in Shalom Auslander’s Hope: A Tragedy. In Němčoková, Katarína , Bell, Gregory Jason. From Theory to Practice 2016: Proceedings of the eighth International Conference in Anglophone Studies. 1st ed. Zlín: Univerzita Tomáše Bati ve Zlíně, 2018, p. 171-178. ISBN 978-80-7454-756-0.

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WEISS, Michaela. Humor and the Jewish Holocaust Trauma in Shalom Auslander’s Hope: A Tragedy. In Němčoková, Katarína , Bell, Gregory Jason. \textit{From Theory to Practice 2016: Proceedings of the eighth International Conference in Anglophone Studies}. 1st ed. Zlín: Univerzita Tomáše Bati ve Zlíně, 2018, p.~171-178. ISBN~978-80-7454-756-0.

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