Writing herself against history: Anne Frank's self-portrait as a young artist

Modern Judaism

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 105-134

  Ricoeur, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

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EID: 34250358504     PISSN: 02761114     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/mj/16.2.105     Document Type: Review

References (31)

1. Paul Ricoeur, Time and Narrative, trans. Kathleen McLaughlin and David Pellauer (Chicago, 1984), Vol. 2, p. 28.
2. Alvin H. Rosenfeld, "Popularization and Memory: The Case of Anne Frank", Lessons and legacies: The Meaning of the Holocaust in the Changing World, edited by Peter Hayes (Evanston, 1991), p. 271.
3. Quoted in The Diary of Anne Frank: The Critical Edition, p. 67-8. For full bibliographical annotation, see note 25.
4. See for instance Miri Baruch's article, "Anne Frank's The Diary of a Young GirC which discusses the various aspects of The Diary as a text by an adolescent appropriate for adolescent readers. The Melton Journal' Issues and Themes in Jewish Education, Vol. 23 (Spring 1990), pp. 17-19.
5. Lawrence Graver, An Obsession with Anne Frank (Berkeley, 1995).
6. Judith E. Doneson, "The Diary of Anne Frank in the Context of Post-War America and the 1950s", in The Holocaust in American Film (Philadelphia, 1987), pp. 57-85.
7. Sidra DeKoven Ezrahi, By Words Alone: The Holocaust in Literature (Chicago, 1980), pp. 200-204.
8. Sander L. Gilman, Jewish Self-Hatred: Anti-Semitism and the Hidden Language of the Jews (Baltimore, 1986), pp. 349-350.
9. James E. Young, Writing and Rewriting the Holocaust: Narrative and the Consequences of Interpretation (Bloomington, 1988), p. 27.
10. IS. Gilman, Jewish Self-Hatred, p. 353.
11. Bruno Bettelheim, Surviving and Other Essays (New York, 1980), p. 251.
12. Rosenfeld, "Popularization and Memory", p. 275.
13. See, for instance, a general overview of the Diary in Henry F. Pommer, "The Legend and Art of Anne Frank", Judaism, Vol. 9(1960), pp. 36-46
14. and the theme of the Jewish woman in the Diary in Yasmine Ergas, "Growing up Banished: A Reading of Anne Frank and Etty Hillesum" in Behind the Lines: Gender and the Two World Wars, edited by Margaret Randolph Higonnet, Jane Jenson, Sonya Michael and Margaret Collins Weitz (New Haven, 1987), pp. 84-99.
15. John Berryman, The Freedom of the Poet (New York, 1980), p. 92 (italics in the text).
16. The editors of the Critical Edition explain: "Anne Frank wrote two versions of her diary, the second being based on the first. It was on the basis of these manuscripts that the first Dutch publication of her diaries, Het Achterhuis, was brought out in 1947." In the Critical Edition, the first version appears at the top of the page, the second version appears under the first and, finally, the English translation of the Dutch publication entided Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl published in 1952 (p. 168; for full annotation of the Critical Edition, see note 25).
17. Tzvetan Todorov, The Fantastic: A Structural Approach to a Literary Genre, trans. Richard Howard (Cleveland, 1973), pp. 170-172.
18. All the quotes from Anne Frank's Diary are taken from The Diary of Anne Frank: The Critical Edition, prepared by the Netherlands State Institute for War Documentation, edited by David Barnouw and Gerrold van der Stroom, English translation by Arnold J. Pmerans and B. M. Mooyart-Doubleday (New York, 1989). The page numbers preceded by the letter D appear in the text
19. Miep Gies, Anne Frank Remembered: The Story of a Woman Who Helped to Hide the Frank Family (New York, 1987), p. 165.
20. Frank Kermode, The Sense of Ending (New York, 1967), p. 6.
21. Aristode, "Poetics", Criticism: Major Texts, edited by Walter Jackson Bate (New York, 1952), p. 20.
22. Paul Tillich, The Courage to Be (London, 1961), p. 77.
23. Lawrence Rosenwald, Emerson and the Art of the Diary (New York, 1988), p. 6.
24. Henri Bergson, Creative Evolution (London, 1911), pp. 359-360.
25. The Best of Sholom Aleichem, edited by Irving Howe and Ruth Wisse (New York, 1979), p. 36.
26. Georges Gusdorf, "Conditions and Limits of Autobiography", in Autobiography: Essays Theoretical and Critical, edited by James Olney (Princeton, 1980), p. 44.
27. Margaret A. Farley, Personal Commitments: Beginning, Keeping, Changing (San Francisco, 1986), p. 43.
28. Steven E. Kagle, American Diary Literature 1620-1799 (Boston, 1979), p. 17.
29. Hannah Arendt, The Human Condition (Chicago, 1958), p. 236.
30. André Gide Journals, trans. Justin O'Brien (Harmondsworth, 1978), pp. 18-19.
31. Ernst Schnabel, Anne Frank: A Portrait in Courage, trans. Richard and Clara Winston (New York, 1958), pp. 168-169.