Anja Tippner Narratives of Annihilation, Confinement, an (Paperback) (US IMPORT)

Further Details\n\nTitle: Narratives of Annihilation, Confinement, and Survival\nCondition: New\nDescription: The concept of \u201Ccamp narratives\u201D rather than \u201CHolocaust narratives\u201D or \u201CGulag narratives\u201D is based on the assumption that literary accounts of camp experiences share common traits, aesthetically as well as thematically. The book presents readings of camp literature that underscore the similarities between texts about Soviet gulag camps, Nazi camps and about other camp experiences. While literature about Nazi concentration camps still serves as a point of reference for camp narratives in the same way that the Holocaust serves as a point of reference for other genocidal operations, socialist labor and penal camps have become transnational lieux de m\u00E9moire in their own right since 1989. This volume intends to provide a theoretical frame as well as an overview of several important European camp literatures and case studies of iconic camp narrati.