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Article: Ethics and Remembrance in the Poetry of Nelly Sachs and Rose Auslander.(Review)
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- Journal of European Studies
- Article date:
- March 1, 2001
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Ethics and Remembrance in the Poetry of Nelly Sachs and Rose Auslander. By Kathrin M. Bower. Rochester, New York: Camden House, 2000. Pp. 280. [pounds]35.00.
This book examines the work of two German-Jewish poets who, as survivors of the Holocaust, exiles and women, explore questions of loss, marginality and the breakdown of identity. It represents an incisive new reading of the startling and strange imagery, movements and stories which emerge from their work. The critical prism of an ethics of otherness, deriving from Levinas and Kristeva, enables Bower to steer between analyses of the traumas which the poetry thematizes and the various imaginative structures of ...