The "erotics of Auschwitz": Coming of age in the painted bird and Sophie's choice

Witnessing the Disaster: Essays on Representation and the Holocaust

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 90-124

  Oster, Sharon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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References (10)

1. Alvin Rosenfeld, A Double Dying: Reflections on Holocaust Literature (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1980), 164.
2. Jerzy Kosinski, The Painted Bird, 2nd ed. (New York: Grove Press, 1976);
3. William Styron, Sophie's Choice (New York: Vintage, 1992). All subsequent references will be to these editions, and page numbers will be cited parenthetically in the text.
4. Joan Smith, "Holocaust Girls," Misogynies (New York: Fawcett Columbine, 1989), 106-19, 108.
5. Paul Lilly, Words in Search of Victims: The Achievement of Jerzy Kosinski (Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 1988), 18.
6. Saul Friedlander, ed. and intro., Probing the Limits of Representation: Nazism and the Final Solution (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1992), 18, 1.
7. Stephen Schiff, "The Kosinski Conundrum," Vanity Fair, June 1988, 114-19, 166-70, reprinted in Critical Essays on Jerzy Kosinski, ed. Barbara Tepa Lupack (New York: G. K. Hall, 1998), 223.
8. Geoffrey Stokes and Eliot Fremont-Smith, "Jerzy Kosinski's Tainted Words," Village Voice, June 22, 1982, 41-43.
9. Cited in James Park Sloane, "Kosinski's War," New Yorker, October 10, 1994, 46.
10. Susan Sontag, "Fascinating Fascism," in A Susan Sontag Reader, ed. Elizabeth Hardwick (New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1982), 305-25, 317. In pornographic culture, Sontag argues, "the SS has become a referent of sexual adventurism. Much of the imagery of far-out sex has been placed under the sign of Nazism" (323).