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By Rachael McLennan
This booklet explores portrayals of Anne Frank in American literature, the place she is frequently invoked, if problematically, as a method of encouraging readers to imagine commonly approximately persecution, genocide, and victimisation; usually in terms of gender, ethnicity, and race. It exhibits how literary representations of Anne Frank in the US during the last 50 years mirror the continuing dominance of the yank dramatic variations of Frank’s Diary within the Fifties, and argues that authors consider pressured to interact with the complex parts of those variations and their iconic energy. even as, notwithstanding, literary representations of Frank are linked to the variations; critics usually imagine that those texts unquestioningly perpetuate the issues with the diversifications. this isn't actual. This ebook examines how American authors characterize Frank to be able to negotiate tricky questions in relation to illustration of the Holocaust in the US, and to be able to think about gender, coming of age, and sorts of inequality in American tradition in quite a few ancient moments; and naturally, to think about the methods Frank herself is represented in the USA. This publication argues that the main compelling representations of Frank in American literature are alert to their very own obstacles, and should warning opposed to making Frank a common image of goodness or developing too effortless identifications along with her. it is going to be of significant curiosity to researchers and scholars of Frank, the Holocaust in American fiction and tradition, gender reviews, existence writing, younger grownup fiction, and ethics.
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