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1 Traces of Trauma: Loss and Longing in Too Many Men Shannon Dowling , 2007 single work criticism
— Appears in: JASAL , vol. 6 no. 1 2007; (p. 79-90) 'In both her fiction and autobiographical essays, author Lily Brett describes the process of travelling 'home' to Poland as an adult child of Holocaust survivors. In a close reading of her novel Too Many Men, I will discuss the contemporary concern with returning to the 'past' for a sense of contemporary 'self' represented in this novel. In Too Many Men the protagonist Ruth journeys to Poland with her father, visiting the sites of his former life and the places of his family's destruction. However, the journey represents very different things for these two characters. Sites of memory, 'simulation' and the 'trace' are key ideas adopted in this reading.' (JASAL abstract)
1 In Conversation with Lily Brett Shannon Dowling (interviewer), 1998 single work biography interview
— Appears in: Scarp , October no. 33 1998; (p. 20-27)
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