Vice, S. orcid.org/0000-0002-4772-7739 (2023) Rachel Seiffert’s A Boy in Winter (2017) and the Literary Construction of Ukraine. Eastern European Holocaust Studies, 1 (1). ISSN 2749-9030
Abstract
This article analyses the literary representation of Nazi-occupied Ukraine in Rachel Seiffert’s 2017 novel A Boy in Winter. It does so by exploring the novel’s documentary and fictional influences, from which its concern with the genocide of the Jews and the German colonization of the East is crafted. The alterations and omissions from the historical accounts and the novel’s use of modernist literary techniques combine in a way that resembles the methods of other examples of Holocaust fiction, but in this case to create a distinctive allegorical mode. The article concludes by arguing that ultimately the most significant influence on A Boy in Winter is a novel from almost a century earlier, Joseph Roth’s The Radetzky March (1932).
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2022 the author(s), published by De Gruyter. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
Keywords: | Rachel Seiffert; Ukraine; marshes; Joseph Roth; Holocaust |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Arts and Humanities (Sheffield) > School of English (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 21 Sep 2023 14:32 |
Last Modified: | 21 Sep 2023 14:32 |
Published Version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/eehs-2022-0016 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Walter de Gruyter GmbH |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1515/eehs-2022-0016 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:203521 |