Anglo-Jewish Women Writing the Holocaust Displaced Witnesses [Hardcover]

In its?analysis of Anglo-Jewish women writing the Holocaust, this book highlights the necessity of their inclusion in the evolving canon of modern British literature, by?showing how these?writers complicate theories of trauma and memory by using fantasy and the Gothic as a response to silence.Introduction Other People's Houses: Remembering the Kindertransport Karen Gershon: Stranger from the Kindertransport Dramas of the Kindertransport and its Aftermath The Transgenerational Haunting of Anne Karpf and Lisa Appignanesi Elaine Feinstein's Holocaust Imagination Displaced Testimony: The Dramas of Julia Pascal and Sue Frumin Afterword Bibliography Index

'Phyllis Lassner has written a fascinating and scholarly account of a group of women writers - poets, novelists and dramatists -whose work has been shaped not only by their gender, but also by their Jewish background. Lassner is forthright and insightful about their sense of displacement whether born in the UK or not.' - Elaine Feinstein, novelist, poet and biographer

'Even the sophisticated reader of Holocaust literature will discover new authors and perspectives in Phyllis Lassner's clear-sighted book about the Kinder. Lassner's steady focus on these displaced witnesses allows her to cover all aspects of the shared yet variegated fate of the Kindertransport refugees viewed mainly through their own historical or imaginative accounts. She conveys to us their creative if troubled consciousness, in particular their irresolute and largely unresolved integration into Britishness. I welcome this fine and intensely thoughtful book about a segment of Anglo-Jewish women's writing that should be better known.' - Geoffrey Hartman, Sterling Professor Emeritus and Senior Research Scholar of English and Comparative Literature, Yale University, USA

'Focusing on Anglo-Jewish Women writers, this book enhances our understanding of the impact of the Holocaust - of trauma - across generatiolÖ