Surviving to Tell the Tale: 'No One is Here Except All of Us'

Linguaculture

Cristina Chevereșan¹ 

[1] West University of Timişoara, Romania;

关键词: fantasy;    Holocaust;    memory;    representation;    Romania;    storytelling;   

DOI  :  10.47743/lincu-2018-2-0122

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

The article focuses on Romanian-American Ramona Ausubel’s 2012 No One Is Here Except All of Us. Written in English by a second-generation immigrant to the United States, the World War II story unfolds dramatically as a fable that relies upon community, memory and imagination. It revolves around the protagonists’ shared belief that by erasing and reinventing their past, by starting their lives anew via reshuffled creation myths, their small assembly of forgotten individuals might survive in an enclave of its own, fantastic. This makes Ausubel’s unique approach to the Holocaust and its pogroms part of a compelling series of trauma narratives, as a biographically-informed fictional account of factual circumstances. By emphasizing the crucial, cathartic dimension of storytelling and employing it textually and meta-textually, the book blurs the boundaries between genres. The author’s mediated insight into community stereotyping, persecution, solidarity and, ultimately, migration, and its skillful integration into a postmodern (counter) fairytale, will be scrutinized as valuable and effective contemporary awareness-raising tools.

【 授权许可】

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