Presented by Joe Lockard, Associate Professor of English, ASU

ABOUT THIS LECTURE: This talk discusses David Grossman’s novel More Than I Love My Life (2019) as a prison-centered text. The novel synthesizes the biographical experiences of Eva Panić Nahir (1918-2015), her incarceration on the Goli Otok prison island in Croatia during the Tito-Stalin split, and heavily fictional representations of her Israeli family members. Grossman’s novel exemplifies transgenerational carceral legacies in prison fiction and memoirs.

ABOUT THIS SERIES: How has the legacy of the Cold War shaped contemporary Jewish literature between the United States, Germany and Israel? Join us as we explore how experiences and memories from the Cold War era continue to impact the dynamic present and future of Jewish writing across multiple languages. This lecture is part 1 of the 3-part series.

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