Accidents of Influence, livre ebook

For Norma Rosen, the Holocaust is the central event of the twentieth century. In this book, she examines the relationship of post-Holocaust writers to their work in terms of subject, language, imagery, and facing up to the task of writing in a post-Holocaust era. She considers the work of such major influences on our time as T. S. Eliot, Simone Weil, Anne Frank, E. L. Doctorow, Norman Mailer, Eugenio Montale, Philip Roth, and Saul Bellow. Accidents of Influence combines critical analysis with personal response and autobiographical moments. It includes quotidian encounters in friendship, sex, society, art, politics, response to violence, and religious observance, which struggle for moral ground in this post-Holocaust era.

Foreword

1. A Holocause Mentality
The Holocaust and the American-Jewish Novelist
Simone Weil—A Dissenting View
The Bird Has No Wings: Letters of Peter Schwiefert
Bernard Malamud and the Accidents of Influence
The Literature of Contempt
The Second Life of Holocaust Imagery
On T. S. Eliot: Geniuses and Anti-Semites
Hunting Metaphors and Nazis
"I Had the Distinct Impression Death was Jewish": E. L. Doctorow
Norman Mailer's Holocaust-Poisoned Jews
The Fate of Anne Frank's Diary
Justice for Jonah, or, A Bible Bartleby
Minority Writers and the American Mainstream: Telling Stories in the Houses We Create
Notes Toward a Holocaust Fiction
2. Life Notes
On Living in Two Cultures
Writing as a Woman and a Jew in America
Friday Night Fever
A Women's Service
Women? Writers?
On the Dearth of Female Intellectuals
Her Price Above Rubies
Low Thoughts Among the High-Minded
Sons and Mothers
Baby-Making
Child-Abuse
The World's First Crop
Sometimes I Feel Like a Siblingless Child
An Immoral Tale
William Faulkner and the Art of Ruthlessness
The Luck of the Trip
3. Celebrations

"Wadja Geffa Christmas, Li'l Boy?"
Reclaiming