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Is Anne Frank At Last Taken Seriously As A Writer?, Laureen Nussbaum
Is Anne Frank At Last Taken Seriously As A Writer?, Laureen Nussbaum
World Languages and Literatures Faculty Publications and Presentations
In 1998, the emergence of five unknown pages written by Anne Frank once again focused attention on her diary. Despite the fact that the Netherlands Institute for War Documentation had unravelled the history of Anne's diary in "The Critical Edition" (Dutch 1986, 2001; English 1989, 2003) and had printed all available texts in parallel, readers were confused. This was partly due to Mirjam Pressler’s so-called ‘Definitive Edition’ of 1995 in which the strands, that had been so carefully separated in the Critical Edition, were once again tangled. A brief review of the different versions of Anne Frank's journal may be …
Anne Frank: From Shared Experiences To A Posthumous Literary Bond, Laureen Nussbaum
Anne Frank: From Shared Experiences To A Posthumous Literary Bond, Laureen Nussbaum
World Languages and Literatures Faculty Publications and Presentations
Anne Frank is the best known victim of the Nazis, the representative of all the Jewish children murdered by them. She has become an icon, the heroine of a romanticized play and a subsequent film that made her name a household word all over the world and, at least in this country, the object of heated debates about her putative Jewishness or the lack thereof. While she has risen to fame as a symbol, her talent and her aspirations as a writer have generally not been taken seriously. However, the editor of a recent anthology, Women Writing in Dutch, published …