The Amnesiac Consciousness of the Contemporary Holocaust Novel: Lily Brett’s Too Many Men and Jonathan Safran Foer’s Everything Is Illuminated

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Published: May 1, 2010
DOI: https://doi.org/10.12681/syn.16496
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amnesiac consciousness holocaust Lilly Brett Too Many Men Jonathan Safran Foer Everything is Illuminated
Anna Hunter
University of Central Lancashire
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4202-920X
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Author Biography
Anna Hunter, University of Central Lancashire

Anna Hunter received her Ph.D. in English from the University of Manchester in 2008, for a thesis entitled To Tell The Story: Tracing the development of Holocaust narrative from personal trauma to popular fiction. Publications include “Mapping the Lines of Fact and Fiction in Holocaust Testimonial Novels,” in Comparative Central European Holocaust Studies, ed. by Louise O. Vasvári and Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek (Purdue University Press, 2009); and “In Search of The Final Solution: Crime Narrative as a Paradigm for Exploring Responses to the Holocaust,” in the European Journal of English Studies 14. 2 (August 2010). She is currently employed as a Lecturer in Employability and Enterprise at the University of Central Lancashire and her research interests centre on the use of narrative as a means of facilitating the integration of the Holocaust into cultural memory, genre and the contemporary Holocaust narrative and the use of fairy tales as a frame for traumatic narrative.

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