RE-READING THE DEAD CHILD:THE POST-HOLOCAUST RECEPTION OFTHE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK
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https://doi.org/10.29121/granthaalayah.v4.i3.2016.2797Keywords:
Holocaust, Anne Frank, Theodor Adorno, George Steiner, Revisionism, Bruno Bettelheim, Meyer Levin, Ditlieb Felderer, Anti-SemitismAbstract [English]
This paper aims to focus on the reception of The Diary of Anne Frank in the post-Holocaust era. While as a personal narrative The Diary has been immensely successful in acquiring the sympathy of the reader towards the teenaged victim and her family, it has been far from being beyond the realm of criticism. The apparently simple diary of the traumatized teenaged holocaust victim has sparked off revisionist and anti-Semitic debates and discussions which problematizes not only the premises of the composition, but the authorship as well.
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