Americanizing the Holocaust in Michael Chabon's Moonglow
Contemporary Jewish American writer Michael Chabon portrays the Holocaust by way of post-memory writing in Moonglow.While skillfully blending historical documents,memories and fictional imagination,he incorporates American values and spirit,thereby revealing an"Americanized"narrative of the Holocaust.Through the writing of familial postmemory,Chabon closely links Jewish suffering and redemption narratives with American heroism.Against the political backdrop of the Space Race era,he internalizes the Holocaust as part of America's affiliative postmemory while actively reflecting on America's moral responsibilities.However,in his attempt to use tender literary imagination to"move towards the future",Chabon inadvertently diminishes the severity of the Holocaust,caters to the needs of American cultural diversity,obscures the ideology of American values,as well as exposes the historical limitation of postmemory theory.Going beyond discussing the Holocaust event itself,Moonglow focuses more on the integration and resonance of the Holocaust history with American values,providing a significant text characteristic of the"Americanized"narrative of the Holocaust.
MoonglowMichael Chabonthe Americanization of the Holocaustpostmemory
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