Essays about: "Holocaust Literature"

Found 5 essays containing the words Holocaust Literature.

  1. 1. New Holocaust Literature: Third-Generation Identity, Memory, and the Reader in Hanna Rajs' Under Månen (2020)

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Masterprogram: Litteratur - Kultur – Media

    Author : Anna Hofman; [2022]
    Keywords : poetry; Holocaust literature; third generation; Jewish writing; collective memory; Hanna Rajs; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : This thesis explores the functions of memory, collective identity, and communication of those same categories to the reader by means of the poetic form in Hanna Rajs’ poetry collection Under månen (2020). Situated or framed within a discussion on Holocaust Literature, Rajs’ poetry is considered in the light of a general historical purview of Holocaust writing, and her specific place within an authorial Jewish third-generation tradition in diaspora, specifically in Sweden and in Europe. READ MORE

  3. 2. Teaching Tolerance through History: A practice perspective on school trips to the memorial sites of the Holocaust

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Europastudier

    Author : Alice Widerberg; [2022]
    Keywords : History; tolerance; the Holocaust; practice theory; memorial sites; European Studies; Cultural Sciences;

    Abstract : This work studies the practice of school trips to the memorial sites of the Holocaust with the aim of investigating how history is used in order to form tolerance among the participating students. The study employs a theoretical foundation of practice theory and literature on the academic debate on learning from the past. READ MORE

  4. 3. Remembering the Holocaust : Teaching historical trauma in the English classroom through historical fiction and Maus

    University essay from Södertörns högskola/Lärarutbildningen

    Author : Felicia Siljebrand; [2021]
    Keywords : education; didactics; language; literature; history; english; trauma; historical trauma;

    Abstract : This essay explores historical trauma through the lens of post-memory and trauma theory, and aims to analyse the representation of historical trauma in Art Spiegelman’s graphic novel Maus. By using these theories, the essay explores how trauma can be passed on through generations, and how it ultimately affects not only the people who were there to experience it, but also those generations that came after. READ MORE

  5. 4. The memory of the Holocaust as a point of state ontological (in)security : A comparative discursive analysis of the United Kingdom and Poland

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Hugo Valentin-centrum

    Author : Joshua Bennett; [2020]
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    Abstract : This thesis utilises the context of European Holocaust memory to test differences within the existing literature of the theory of ‘ontological security’. The differences centre on questions of identity preservation in the face of threats to a states ‘sense of self’. READ MORE

  6. 5. Education as an Act of Self-Fulfilment : A Literary Analysis of Holocaust Narratives in the Light of Personal Development and Their Utilization in the EFL Classroom

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)

    Author : Ena Kapetanovic; [2017]
    Keywords : Holocaust Literature; Personal Development; Personal Self; Narratives; English as a Foreign Language; The EFL Classroom; Swedish High School;

    Abstract : The aim of the present inquiry was to identify significant factors which had impact on the lives of Miriam Darvas and the protagonist Liesel Meminger, linked to the circumstances of the Holocaust in their respective narratives Farewell to Prague and The Book Thief. Through the investigation of the living conditions impacting the individuals, Maslow’s Theory of Motivation is applied in order to find the factors hindering the possibility for Miriam and Liesel to develop in their personal selves. READ MORE