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Remembering and Imagining the Holocaust: The Chain of Memory
by Christopher Bigsby
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 052186934X
- ISBN 13
- 9780521869348
- Seller
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Champaign, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
Cambridge University Press, October 2006. Hardcover . Very Good/Very Good. Very Good Hardcover with Very Good Dustjacket. Light shelfwear to DJ. Light shelfwear to covers. Spine ends bumped. Textblock lightly soiled. Discoloration near inside hinges. Pages clean and tight in binding. Pictures available upon request. A locally owned, independent book shop since 1984.
Synopsis
This is a meditation on memory and on the ways in which memory has operated in the work of writers for whom the Holocaust was a defining event. It is also an exploration of the ways in which fiction and drama have attempted to approach a subject so resistant to the imagination. Beginning with W. G. Sebald, for whom memory and the Holocaust were the roots of a special fascination, Bigsby moves on to consider those writers Sebald himself valued, including Arthur Miller, Anne Frank, Primo Levi and Peter Weiss, and those whose lives crossed in the bleak world of the camps, in fact or fiction. The book offers a chain of memories. It sets witness against fiction, truth against wilful deceit. It asks the question who owns the Holocaust - those who died, those who survived to bear witness, those who appropriated its victims to shape their own necessities.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Jane Addams Book Shop
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 291857
- Title
- Remembering and Imagining the Holocaust: The Chain of Memory
- Author
- Christopher Bigsby
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 052186934X
- ISBN 13
- 9780521869348
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Place of Publication
- Cambridge
- Date Published
- October 2006
- Pages
- 416
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Jane Addams Book Shop
Biblio member since 2010
Champaign, Illinois
About Jane Addams Book Shop
We are a locally owned, independent bookstore that has been in business for more than twenty-five years. With more than 70,000 titles in our shop we have a number of very well-stocked sections that span fifteen separate rooms on three floors.
Glossary
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
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