Comparative Literature Studies
Volume 54, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 107-124

The past never passes away: The literary representation of Jewish refugees in Shanghai (Review)

Qiao G.
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Abstract

The literary representation of Jewish refugees in Shanghai plays an important part in Holocaust literature, which reflects Jewish suffering during World War II and traumatic memory in the wake of the war. In this essay, the author discusses the literary representation of Jewish refugees in Shanghai from three aspects: Wandering as second nature with Jews, Shanghai in Jewish refugees' literary representation, and their past recomposed as traumatic memory. The author wishes to suggest that the literary representation of Jewish refugees in Shanghai exposes not only the disaster in the past but also the complexity of translating the past into the present. Copyright © 2017. The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA.

Author Keywords

The holocaust memory Jews Refugees trauma

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Link
https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85017562059&doi=10.5325%2fcomplitstudies.54.1.0107&partnerID=40&md5=733d29a570d5acc794709f8b3e05b6d2

DOI: 10.5325/complitstudies.54.1.0107
ISSN: 00104132
Original Language: English