Approaches to Teaching Wiesel's Night Contributor(s): Rosen, Alan (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0873525906 ISBN-13: 9780873525909 Publisher: Modern Language Association of America OUR PRICE: $34.20 Product Type: Paperback Published: January 2007 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - History | Holocaust |
Dewey: 940.531 |
LCCN: 2007006398 |
Series: Approaches to Teaching World Literature |
Physical Information: 0.45" H x 6.58" W x 8.84" (0.57 lbs) 175 pages |
Themes: - Topical - Holocaust |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Elie Wiesel is an internationally known author, human rights advocate, and lecturer. Night, his first book (1956 in Yiddish, 1958 in French, 1960 in English; a new English translation appeared in 2006), has become a classic memoir of a Jewish survivor of the Holocaust. The seventeen essays of this volume in the MLA series Approaches to Teaching World Literature examine the historical, cultural, and literary contexts of Wiesel's book as well as strategies for teaching it in the classroom. Part 1, "Materials," provides resources on the Jewish ghettos and concentration camps of World War II, on the Jewish faith and religious practices, on the genre of victims' diaries, on the critical reception of Night, on Wiesel's other work, and on available audiovisual materials. Part 2, "Approaches," addresses many subjects--among them, Wiesel's narrative techniques, the representation of Auschwitz, the use of different languages, the comparison of Wiesel with Primo Levi, the problems of memory and bearing witness, the Christian response to the Holocaust, and the challenge of teaching a grim and painful text to students. |
Contributor Bio(s): Rosen, Alan: - Alan Rosen was a 2005-06 fellow at the International Institute for Holocaust Research, Yad Vashem. His books include Sounds of Defiance: The Holocaust, Multilingualism, and the Problem of English and Obliged by Memory: Literature, Ethics, and Religion, edited with Steven Katz. His current project is a book on Holocaust testimony. |