Publications by Type: Books

2019
Toker, Leona. Gulag Literature and the Literature of Nazi Camps: An Intercontextual Reading. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2019. Publisher's VersionAbstract

Devoted to the ways in which Holocaust literature and Gulag literature provide contexts for each other, the book shows how the prominent features of one shed light on the veiled features and methods of the other. The narratives are discussed against the background of historical information about the Soviet and the Nazi regimes of repression. Writers at the center of this work include Varlam Shalamov, Primo Levi, Elie Wiesel, and Ka-Tzetnik, and others including Alexandr Solzhenitsyn, Evgeniya Ginzburg, and Jorge Semprun illuminate the discussion. The twofold analysis concentrates on the narrative qualities of the works as well as on the ways in which each text documents the writer’s experience and on the ways in which fictionalized narrative can double as historical testimony. The analysis also comments on references to events that might have become obscure owing to the passage of time and the cultural diversity of readers.

podcast: https://newbooksnetwork.com/gulag-literature-and-the-literature-of-nazi-camps

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2017
"Afterword." In Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers [in Hebrew].
"Afterword." In Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers [in Hebrew].. Trans. Daphna Rosenbluth. Jerusalem: Carmel, 2017.Abstract

Afterword by Leona Toker

2012
Esther Cohen,, Leona Toker, Manuela Consonni, and Otniel E Dror, ed. Knowledge and Pain. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2012.Abstract

Knowledge and Pain. Ed. Esther Cohen, Leona Toker, Manuela Consonni, and Otniel Dror

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2010
Towards the Ethics of Form in Fiction: Narratives of Cultural Remission
Towards the Ethics of Form in Fiction: Narratives of Cultural Remission. Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 2010.
2000
Return from the Archipelago: Narratives of Gulag Survivors
Toker, Leona. Return from the Archipelago: Narratives of Gulag Survivors. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2000.
1996
Shlomith Rimmon-Kenan,, Leona Toker, and Shuli Barzilai, ed. Rereading Texts / Rethinking Critical Presuppositions: Essays in Honour of H. M. Daleski. Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 1996.
1994
Toker, Leona, ed. Commitment in Reflection: Essays in Literature and Moral Philosophy. New York: Garland, 1994.
1993
Eloquent Reticence: Withholding Information in Fictional Narrative
Toker, Leona. Eloquent Reticence: Withholding Information in Fictional Narrative. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1993.
1989
Nabokov: The Mystery of Literary Structures
Toker, Leona. Nabokov: The Mystery of Literary Structures. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1989.