![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() As she travels towards modern-day Kulmhof (Chelmno), the young woman encounters various characters, including a Holocaust survivor known as the Prince who rescued her dying grandmother from a massgrave and organized her flight to the US. Becca, a young American woman, undertakes a journey to Poland to fulfill her promise to her beloved grandmother, Gemma, and solve the mystery of her enigmatic past, thereby reclaiming her family history and Jewish identity. Although Briar Rose (1992) does not figure among the novels listed by Richardson, Jane Yolen’s powerful retelling of the story of “ Sleeping Beauty ” as a disguised Holocaust memoir hybridizes genres still further as it fuses historical fact, detective fiction and the fairy tale to inquire into the communication and transmission of traumatic experience, and confront the ever-pressing problem of historical understanding 3. ![]() Kacandes, Talk Fiction, p. 92.ġIn a recent article, Anna Richardson accounts for the significance of the narrative device of “ Historian-As-Detective ” characteristic of contemporary Holocaust fiction as a mirror of the reader’s “ quest for knowledge in the face of a crisis that threatens the fabric of social order ” 2. 3 The page references to Yolen’s novel will be given parenthetically in the main text instead of foot (.).Richardson, “ In Search of the Final Solution ”, p. 159. ![]()
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