âA brilliantly conceived and long overdue opening up [or deconstruction] of the Anne Frank story.â âJames Clifford, Professor Emeritus, History of Consciousness Department, University of California
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As millions of people around the world who have read her diary attest, Anne Frank, the most familiar victim of the Holocaust, has a remarkable place in contemporary memory. Anne Frank Unbound looks beyond this young girlâs words at the numerous ways people have engaged her life and writing. Apart from officially sanctioned works and organizations, there exists a prodigious amount of cultural production, which encompasses literature, art, music, film, television, blogs, pedagogy, scholarship, religious ritual, and comedy. Created by both artists and amateurs, these responses to Anne Frank range from veneration to irreverence. Although at times they challenge conventional perceptions of her significance, these works testify to the power of Anne Frank, the writer, and Anne Frank, the cultural phenomenon, as people worldwide forge their own connections with the diary and its author.
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âThis collection of brilliant essays offers fascinating and unexpected insights into the significance of Anne Frankâs iconic Holocaust-era diary from many disciplinary perspectives in the arts and humanities.â âJan T. Gross, the Norman B. Tomlinson Professor of War and Society, Princeton University
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âThis volume is a major contribution to scholarship regarding Anne Frank's diary and its cultural influence . . . Highly recommended.â âChoice
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âEngrossing . . . The overall aim is to provide a greater understanding of the general and particular engagement with Anne Frank as a person, a symbol, an icon, an inspiration, and perhaps most polarizing, as one victim, not the victim of the Nazi holocaust.â âBroadside
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