Year: 2007
Type: article
Abstract: In both her fiction and autobiographical essays, author Lily Brett describes the process of travelling ‘home’ to Poland as an adult child of Holocaust survivors. In a close reading of her novel Too Many Men, I will discuss the contemporary concern with returning to the ‘past’ for a sense of contemporary ‘self’ represented in this novel. In Too Many Men the protagonist Ruth journeys to Poland with her father, visiting the sites of his former life and the places of his family’s destruction. However, the journey represents very different things for these two characters. Sites of memory, ‘simulation’ and the ‘trace’ are key ideas adopted in this reading.
Author: Shannon Dowling
Institution: Flinders University
Language: English
Subfield: History
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1584965820