Edith Bruck in the Mirror: Fictional Transitions and Cinematic Narratives

Erscheinungsjahr 2014
ISBN: 978-1-55753-687-7
Verlag: PURDUE UNIV PR

Buch, Englisch, 260 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 386 g

Reihe: Shofar Supplements in Jewish Studies

This important new study is motivated by a desire to better understand and situate Bruck’s art as well as to advance (and, when necessary, to revise) the critical discourse on her considerable and eclectic body of work. As such, it underscores and analyses the intermedial nature of her contributions to contemporary Italian culture, which should no longer be understood merely in terms of her willingness to revisit the subject of the Holocaust on the printed page or the silver screen. It also includes previously unpublished interviews with the author. The book will be of broad interest to scholars and students of Jewish (especially Holocaust) studies, Italian literature, film studies, women’s studies, and postcolonial culture.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Balma, Philip

Über Autor(innen)

Philip Balma is an assistant professor of Italian literary and cultural studies at the University of Connecticut-Storrs, where he serves also as the coordinator of the undergraduate programme in Italian studies. He teaches modern Italian literature and cinema, as well as courses on the Italian American experience. His research interests include the Jewish experience in contemporary Italophone literature and film, artistic representations of World War II, the theory and practice of literary translation, Italian literature in dialect, the influence of English on the Italian language, and the postcolonial question in Italy. He was previously a member of the Italian faculty at Indiana University, the University of Notre Dame, and the University of Georgia.