Would Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse Five work? Mother Night?
They're not specifically shoah, but they're good.
Lemme look up something for a second...
some of these gypsy bibliographies might be useful.
Also, my grandmother kept a diary... I have it as a txt file, but it's definitely non-fictional.
Hmm.
This page here contains this passage:
...editor Hilene Flanzbaum has gathered twelve essays which review the means by which the arts have enabled the Holocaust to enter the American consciousness, gain accepted by the general public, and be transformed by the experience.
The volume opens with Flanzbaum's own study ("The American Jew and the imaginary Poet") of the use of Holocaust imagery and victim identification by non-Jewish poets such as Robert Lowell and John Berryman, in sharp distinction to the early works of Karl Shapiro, a Jewish poet who emphasized the American nature of his identity....
And if you Cntrl+F on "non-Jewish" in this annotated bibliography, you'll find this:
Glatstein, Jacob. Anthology of Holocaust Literature. New York: Macmillan, 1973.
Chapters in this collection cover life in the ghettos, children, the camps, resistance, and non-Jewish victims. Excerpts are included from both works of fiction and primary source materials such as diaries, memoirs, and ghetto documents. Man of these pieces can be especially useful if teachers provide additional background information on the authors and context of the writings.
Gentiles also feature big in this literature of resistance page.
And, although I haven't read it, this interview with the author of a banned children's book contains this passage:
RES: Portions of "Briar Rose" containing homosexual content are one of the reasons it's on the banned books lists.
YOLEN: The homosexual content is slight compared to "homosexual" books. That is, there are no real sex scenes, and one bedroom scene that is really about politics, not sex. But I did not make up the pink triangle camps. "Briar Rose" deals pretty directly in one section with the infamous "Pink Triangle camps" in which the Nazis' incarcerated known or suspected homosexuals. In fact the "Prince" character is a gay man -- or so it seems at first.
Because there is a homosexual character in the book, the novel has been banned in some places, and actually burned in Kansas City on the steps of the Board Of Education by a right-wing religious group. I do not believe they read the book.
So that should at least give you some search terms.... |
