How Safe Are You? Themes, Concerns and Metaphor of Jewish Second-generation Literature in the Novel "To Life"
| aut.embargo | No | en_NZ |
| aut.thirdpc.contains | No | en_NZ |
| aut.thirdpc.permission | No | en_NZ |
| aut.thirdpc.removed | No | en_NZ |
| dc.contributor.advisor | George, James | |
| dc.contributor.advisor | Hocking, Darryl | |
| dc.contributor.author | Warner, Kirsten | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2013-06-13T22:05:46Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2013-06-13T22:05:46Z | |
| dc.date.copyright | 2012 | |
| dc.date.created | 2013 | |
| dc.date.issued | 2012 | |
| dc.date.updated | 2013-05-25T21:03:30Z | |
| dc.description.abstract | The novel To Life concerns the inheritance of psychic trauma by the child of a survivor of the Jewish Holocaust, and is part of the genre of second-generation literature. In this exegesis I will examine the genre’s frames of reference and some of its themes and concerns as relating to the novel To Life. Firstly, I will discuss some of the creative process of writing the novel, and why I felt compelled to do so. Within that I discuss feelings of lack of entitlement as a second-generation writer, and the transformation of personal history into fiction. I then examine ‘second generation’ as a psychological description of growing up with the Holocaust, and how I have tried to recreate this in the novel. I will outline the frames of reference of second-generation literature and how they shaped this novel. In particular I will examine voice, tense and point of view; memory and postmemory; and the subconscious made conscious. The exegesis identifies metaphor as a tool for second-generation writers. In related works and in To Life, I discuss how megametaphor operates through the text as a whole, by representation, comparison and association, to indicate that something is going on under the surface. In To Life, the underlying question for someone of the second generation is, “How safe are you?” | en_NZ |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10292/5472 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_NZ |
| dc.publisher | Auckland University of Technology | |
| dc.rights.accessrights | OpenAccess | |
| dc.subject | Second-generation | en_NZ |
| dc.subject | 2G | en_NZ |
| dc.subject | Holocaust | en_NZ |
| dc.subject | Jewish | en_NZ |
| dc.subject | Post-memory | en_NZ |
| dc.subject | Survivor | en_NZ |
| dc.title | How Safe Are You? Themes, Concerns and Metaphor of Jewish Second-generation Literature in the Novel "To Life" | en_NZ |
| dc.type | Exegesis | |
| thesis.degree.discipline | ||
| thesis.degree.grantor | Auckland University of Technology | |
| thesis.degree.level | Masters Theses | |
| thesis.degree.name | Master of Creative Writing | en_NZ |