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Josée Antoine, « Une rhétorique de l'indicible : "The Shawl" de Cynthia Ozick », Journal of the Short Story in English, ID : 10670/1.gx4zdw
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The aim of this study is to examine Cynthia Ozick's contribution to Holocaust literature through one of her shortest yet most poignant short story : The Shawl. Cynthia 0zick posits herself as what Norma Rosen calls a "witness‑through-the-imagination", taking up the challenge of imagining, depicting and articulating what seems to elude literary representation, namely the horror of concentration camps. Cynthia Ozick's fictional representation, based on indirection and metaphor, serves the moral duty today's Jewish writer cannot eschew: that of speaking the unspeakable, of turning history into historical conscience.