Description
Book SynopsisDevoted to the ways in which Holocaust literature and Gulag literature provide contexts for each other, Leona Toker shows how the prominent features of one shed light on the veiled features and methods of the other.
Trade ReviewThis is a welcome new approach to camp testimony, and many such comparative accounts will surely follow.
* Times Higher Education *
For many scholars already ensconced in the field of camp literature, Gulag Literature and the Literature of Nazi Camps may serve as a platform from which to reconsider stale assumptions and definitions. For a great many future scholars, it will be a launching pad.
-- Benjamin Paloff * Antisemitism Studies *
Toker writes with erudition, nuance, and complexity that few other scholars could match on this topic.
-- Katherine R. Jolluck * The Russian Review *
Toker expands our understanding of the atrocities committed during the Holocaust and Soviet Gulag with this expansive and engaging study.
-- Julie Draskoczy Zigoris * Slavic Review *
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
Inter-Contextuality: Introduction
1. The Gulag and Nazi Camps: From Improvisation to Stability
2. Two Strands of Concentration Camp Literature: A Brief History of an Entanglement
3. The Muselmann and the Dokhodiaga
4. Forced Labor
5. The Drowned and the Reprieved
6. On the Way to Resistance
7. Faith
8. Endgames
9. Survivor Guilt
Concluding Reflections
Works Cited
Index
