Natàlia Vila
Feb 5, 20238 min read
A Place Without Pity: Loss and Motherhood in Cynthia Ozick’s The Shawl
Cynthia Ozick published the short story The Shawl in The New Yorker in 1980, 35 years after the end of the Second World War and the Holocaust. One might wonder about the reasons for the reminiscence of the traumatic experiences of Holocaust survivors and, thus, the establishment of Holocaust Literature as a genre. As Alkana (1997) introduces, “the task of telling Holocaust stories has involved a recognition that beyond the fundamental value of presenting witness and survivor