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In The Shawl () Cynthia Ozick constructs a narrative of the Nazi genocide around women's experience, especially what it is like to be a mother in the time.!
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Cynthia Ozick’s “The Shawl” is a haunting short story published in the New Yorker in 1980. Ozick later included it with a novella about the main character, Rosa, in a single volume also entitled The Shawl.
Ozick is Jewish but did not experience the Holocaust firsthand because she was living in America; however, she felt compelled to write “The Shawl” after reading a sentence in The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, published by William Shirer in 1960.
The sentence was about a baby being thrown into an electric fence, a moment so viscerally and unbelievably horrifying that Ozick said she wrote the first five pages “as if I heard a voice.” She was very clear that she “[had] no entitlement to this part because it’s an experience in a death camp.
I was not there. I did not experience it.” Nonetheless, she believed her story would be an important window into the trauma of the Holocaust.
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