Emily Prager’s novel Eve’s Tattoo works within and against a gendered discourse of historical narratives, relying on oral tales and contemporary performance in order to revitalize a composite concentration camp victim whose fate is traced through a variety of frames. Ironic and postmodern, it acts as an important American Studies text for its interventions into historical frameworks and its use of cultural studies motifs, its manipulation of subjectivity and identity, and its focus on performance and appropriation. The novel relies on an odd sense of nostalgia for the past—in preference, almost, to a complicated present in the archetypal American city, New York—even as it limns the fate of “unusual” victims under Nazi Germany.
Birincil Dil | İngilizce |
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Konular | Afrika Dilleri, Edebiyatları ve Kültürleri |
Bölüm | Research Article |
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Yayımlanma Tarihi | 1 Nisan 2000 |
Yayımlandığı Sayı | Yıl 2000 Sayı: 11 |
JAST - Journal of American Studies of Turkey