TY - JOUR
T1 - Exiles from Jewish memory
T2 - Anita Brookner's Anglo-Jewish aesthetic
AU - Lassner, Phyllis
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - Written three years apart, Brookner's novels Family and Friends (1985) and The Latecomers (1988) represent significant interventions in the plot of belonging to Britain. Her characters are the fortunate few who found safety and prosperity along with displacement and loss in their escape from another empire: the Third Reich. Both novels represent their characters' survival as an aesthetic that interlaces conflicting and empty memories of their European past with their ambiguous status as Britons. In these novels, Brookner's aesthetic constructs the past as both a haunting presence and an irreparable lack.
AB - Written three years apart, Brookner's novels Family and Friends (1985) and The Latecomers (1988) represent significant interventions in the plot of belonging to Britain. Her characters are the fortunate few who found safety and prosperity along with displacement and loss in their escape from another empire: the Third Reich. Both novels represent their characters' survival as an aesthetic that interlaces conflicting and empty memories of their European past with their ambiguous status as Britons. In these novels, Brookner's aesthetic constructs the past as both a haunting presence and an irreparable lack.
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U2 - 10.1353/tsw.2010.a435427
DO - 10.1353/tsw.2010.a435427
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:79957967499
SN - 0732-7730
VL - 29
SP - 47
EP - 61
JO - Tulsa Studies in Womens Literature
JF - Tulsa Studies in Womens Literature
IS - 1
ER -