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New Holocaust Literature: Third-Generation Identity, Memory, and the Reader in Hanna Rajs' Under Månen (2020)

Hofman, Anna LU (2022) LIVR07 20221
Master's Programme: Literature - Culture - Media
Abstract
This thesis explores the functions of memory, collective identity, and communication of those same categories to the reader by means of the poetic form in Hanna Rajs’ poetry collection Under månen (2020). Situated or framed within a discussion on Holocaust Literature, Rajs’ poetry is considered in the light of a general historical purview of Holocaust writing, and her specific place within an authorial Jewish third-generation tradition in diaspora, specifically in Sweden and in Europe. This thesis dissects the means of temporal and transcultural travel found in Under månen. Through poetry Rajs takes part in and enacts cultural memory, simultaneously allowing for a polyphony of voices (a "we" and a plural "you") to be heard, through... (More)
This thesis explores the functions of memory, collective identity, and communication of those same categories to the reader by means of the poetic form in Hanna Rajs’ poetry collection Under månen (2020). Situated or framed within a discussion on Holocaust Literature, Rajs’ poetry is considered in the light of a general historical purview of Holocaust writing, and her specific place within an authorial Jewish third-generation tradition in diaspora, specifically in Sweden and in Europe. This thesis dissects the means of temporal and transcultural travel found in Under månen. Through poetry Rajs takes part in and enacts cultural memory, simultaneously allowing for a polyphony of voices (a "we" and a plural "you") to be heard, through mediation, at once enacting communicative memory. This kind of interplay also evokes questions of addresses and readers’ positions present in relation to memory acts pertaining to the Holocaust at this seminal point in time for memorialization. Whether or not the reader “finds” themselves in Rajs’ lyrical subject – they are always, necessarily, negotiating their position amid topics of commemoration, antisemitism, Jewish tradition, and what is to come due to the spoken, social-media infused, language evoked and lyrical form. (Less)
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author
Hofman, Anna LU
supervisor
organization
course
LIVR07 20221
year
type
H2 - Master's Degree (Two Years)
subject
keywords
poetry, Holocaust literature, third generation, Jewish writing, collective memory, Hanna Rajs
language
English
id
9094386
date added to LUP
2022-07-01 15:54:17
date last changed
2022-07-01 15:54:17
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  abstract     = {{This thesis explores the functions of memory, collective identity, and communication of those same categories to the reader by means of the poetic form in Hanna Rajs’ poetry collection Under månen (2020). Situated or framed within a discussion on Holocaust Literature, Rajs’ poetry is considered in the light of a general historical purview of Holocaust writing, and her specific place within an authorial Jewish third-generation tradition in diaspora, specifically in Sweden and in Europe. This thesis dissects the means of temporal and transcultural travel found in Under månen. Through poetry Rajs takes part in and enacts cultural memory, simultaneously allowing for a polyphony of voices (a "we" and a plural "you") to be heard, through mediation, at once enacting communicative memory. This kind of interplay also evokes questions of addresses and readers’ positions present in relation to memory acts pertaining to the Holocaust at this seminal point in time for memorialization. Whether or not the reader “finds” themselves in Rajs’ lyrical subject – they are always, necessarily, negotiating their position amid topics of commemoration, antisemitism, Jewish tradition, and what is to come due to the spoken, social-media infused, language evoked and lyrical form.}},
  author       = {{Hofman, Anna}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{New Holocaust Literature: Third-Generation Identity, Memory, and the Reader in Hanna Rajs' Under Månen (2020)}},
  year         = {{2022}},
}