Paying Homage to the Holocaust Female Victims in "The Zone of Interest"

Aída Díaz Bild

doi:10.18172/jes.5690

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Aída Díaz Bild University of La Laguna https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7543-5872

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18172/jes.5690

Palabras clave:

La zona de interés, el Holocausto, víctimas femeninas, género, judío, subversivo

Resumen

Amis retoma el tema del Holocausto después de La flecha del tiempo (1991) con La zona de interés (2014), una novela realista ambientada en Auschwitz entre agosto de 1942 y abril de 1943. Amis decide escribir nuevamente sobre las atrocidades cometidas por los nazis porque cree que el impacto del Holocausto cambiará con la desaparición física de los supervivientes. En este artículo nos vamos a centrar en dos de las víctimas femeninas creadas por Amis: una prisionera judía que se enfrenta a sus opresores y una doctora judía moralmente destruida por su colaboración con los nazis, ambas presentadas a través de la mirada del perpetrador. Para poder demostrar cómo Amis logra ofrecer al lector un retrato certero de las humillaciones que los Nazis infligían a sus víctimas, usaremos los testimonios de los testigos, así como los trabajos sobre el Holocausto más relevantes para nuestro análisis, con especial atención a aquellos que ofrecen una perspectiva de género.

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