Finlay, F (2020) ‘ein Holocaust, aber eben nicht meiner’: The Armenian Genocide in the Works of Edgar Hilsenrath. Modern Language Review, 115 (3). pp. 618-638. ISSN 0026-7937
Abstract
My focus is on Edgar Hilsenrath’s lifelong preoccupation with the Armenian Genocide, with particular reference to Das Märchen vom letzten Gedanken (1989). I draw for the first time on archival papers from Hilsenrath’s archive to trace the novel’s genesis and identify its extensive sources. I explore how Hilsenrath interprets historical acts of racial persecution via comparison. This underpins the parallels between the Armenian experience and Jewish experience under the National Socialists and influences the textual strategies he deploys. I argue that the historical content and sources used by Hilsenrath put him ahead of historiographical research in the late 1980s.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2020 Modern Humanities Research Association. This is an author produced version of an article published in The Modern Language Review. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures (Leeds) > School of Languages Cultures & Societies (Leeds) > German (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 13 Feb 2020 15:32 |
Last Modified: | 02 Jul 2021 00:38 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Modern Humanities Research Association |
Identification Number: | 10.5699/modelangrevi.115.3.0618 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:156988 |