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The Fantastic in Holocaust Literature and Film
Critical Perspectives
Edited by Judith B. Kerman and John Edgar Browning
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When reality becomes fantastic, what literary effects will render it credible or comprehensible? To respond meaningfully to the surreality of the Holocaust, writers must produce works of moral and emotional complexity. One way they have achieved this is through elements of fantasy. Covering a range of theoretical perspectives, this collection of essays explores the use of fantastic story-telling in Holocaust literature and film. Writers such as Jane Yolen and Art Spiegelman are discussed, as well as the sci-fi television series V (1983), Stephen King’s novella Apt Pupil (1982), Guillermo del Toro’s Pan’s Labyrinth (2006) and Martin Scorsese’s dark thriller Shutter Island (2010).
About the authors:
Judith B. Kerman, professor emerita of English at Saginaw Valley State University, has ten books or chapbooks of poetry and translations, including a seminal collection of scholarly articles about the film Blade Runner. She is publisher and editor of Mayapple Press in Woodstock, New York.
John Edgar Browning is a Marion L. Brittain Postdoctoral Fellow at Georgia Tech and has over ten published and forthcoming books on Bram Stoker, vampires and horror.
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