The literary representation of Jewish refugees in Shanghai plays an important part in Holocaust literature, which reflects Jewish suffering during World War II and traumatic memory in the wake of the war. In this essay, the author discusses the literary representation of Jewish refugees in Shanghai from three aspects: wandering as second nature with Jews, Shanghai in Jewish refugees' literary representation, and their past recomposed as traumatic memory. The author wishes to suggest that the literary representation of Jewish refugees in Shanghai exposes not only the disaster in the past but also the complexity of translating the past into the present.
Comparative Literature Studies publishes comparative critical essays that range across the rich traditions of Africa, Asia, Europe, and North and South America, and that examine the literary relations between East and West, North and South. Articles may also explore movements, themes, forms, the history of ideas, relations between authors, the foundations of criticism and theory, and issues of language and translation. Each issue of CLS also contains numerous book reviews of the most important comparative literature monographs and essay collections.
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