Description
Book SynopsisLooks beyond this young girl's words at the numerous ways people have engaged her life and writing
Trade ReviewThis engrossing collection of 12 interdisciplinary essays covers multiple aspects of 'the Anne Frank phenomenon' . . . The overall aim is to provide a greater understanding of the general and particular engagement with Anne Frank as a person, a symbol, an icon, an inspiration, and perhaps most polarizing, as one victim, not the victim of the Nazi holocaust.
* Broadside *
Principally the work of senior international scholars in history, literature, Hebraic and Judaic studies, and performance and film studies, and of museum curators, this volume is a major contribution to scholarship regarding Anne Frank's diary and its cultural influence. . . . Highly recommended.
* Choice *
Anne Frank Unbound . . . tell[s] us a great deal about the myriad uses to which one individual story has been and can be put. . . . In addition to these ethical and political questions, the essays engage productively with the aesthetic choices made by writers, visual artists, filmmakers, performance artists, and comedians, who recast Anne Frank in a variety of media and situations. . . . If Anne Frank Unbound is any indication, the diary will certainly continue . . . to raise a set of persistent ethical, political, and aesthetic questions that have been with us since its first publication.
* Women's Review of Books *
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
Introduction: Anne Frank, The Phenomenon
Part I: Mediating
1. From Diary to Book: Text, Object, Structure Jeffrey Shandler
2. From Page to Stage Edna Nahshon
3. In Moving Images Leshu Torchin
Part II: Remembering
4. Hauntings and Sitings in Germany Henri Lustiger Thaler and Wilfried Wiedemann
5. Teaching Anne Frank in America Ilana Abramovitch
6. Anne Frank as Icon, from Human Rights to Holocaust Denial Brigitte Sion
7. Anne Frank, a Guest at the Seder Liora Gubkin
Part III: Imagining
8. Literary Afterlives of Anne Frank Sara R. Horowitz
9. Suturing In: Anne Frank as Conceptual Model for Visual Art Daniel Belasco
10. Sounds from the Secret Annex: Composing a Young Girl's Thoughts Judah M. Cohen
Part IV: Contesting
11. Critical Thinking: Scholars Reread the Diary Sally Charnow
12. Anne Frank on Crank: Comic Anxieties Edward Portnoy
Epilogue: The Anne Frank Tree—A Life of Its Own Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett
End Notes
Musicography Judah M. Cohen
Videography Aviva Weintraub
Contributors
Index
