Contemporary Foreign Languages Studies ›› 2013, Vol. 13 ›› Issue (06): 56-59.

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The Post-Holocaust Consciousness and the Jewishness in E·L·Doctorow's Novels

LI Shunchun   

  • Online:2013-06-15 Published:2020-07-25

Abstract: E·L·Doctorow's novels are integrated implicitly or explicitly into the post-Holocaust consciousness, whose purpose is to highlight its unique Jewishness. His developing the literary motif of sufferings and redemption endows the discourse of victimization and redemption of the Holocaust with unique Jewishness; and his writing about the motif of diasporas and identity motif illustrates that the Holocaust establishes distinct Jewish national identity, and the Jewish languages are also the important symbol of identity of the Jews; and his elucidation of the motif of memory and transcendence shows that the Holocaust memory is of the Jews, and of the world. Doctorow's novels reflect both the Jewish and the cosmopolitan qualities.

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