Shaking words: memoir as confrontation in Markus Zusak’sThe Book Thief
Year: 2018
Type: article
Abstract: Death is the unusual narrator of The Book Thief (2005), a fictional memoir set in Bavaria at the onset of WWII. Liesel Meminger's foster parents decide to help a German Jew, an event that will catalyze major changes in their lives and which will in turn be embedded in Liesel's account. This paper attempts at analyzing the role of words and how they symbolically recover the stories of those who were silenced: Liesel's memoirs thus become acts of confrontation against the destructive potential of the Nazi discourse that provide further nuances to the interaction between fiction and historical accounts.
Source: Holocaust Studies
Author: Emma Domínguez-Rué
Institution: Universitat de Lleida
Language: English
Subfield: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2803404222