The Narratives of the Holocaust Victims as portrayed in Anita Diamant’s novel Day after Night

Abstract

Anita Diamant’s protagonists come from a one line story from where they develop as strong characters. Her novels like The Red Tent, The Boston Girl, Last Days of Dogtown, and Day after Night are revisioned fiction which expose the hidden story of the characters.     These revisionist novels approach the original plot from the perspective that day might be night and propose that there may be alternative, unrecorded versions of history that can only be unearthed by the imagination, which has the power to transform female experiences.

The protagonists embrace the difficult situations in order to create a new life for themselves. Her characters could have allowed their negative experiences to get them down, but they embrace them and rise up in their lives inspite of them. Most of the Holocaust fiction discusses the pathetic struggles and plight of the survivors. It never shows the recreation of the survivors’ lives after the horrendous acts inflicted upon their clan. Being a Jewish writer, through her novels, Diamant removes all the pain and suffering undergone by her clan for being Jews. Further, as a liberal feminist, she gives the opportunity to holocaust survivors to overcome their pain, agony, and memories of their horrible past, through bonds of female friendship.