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The Holocaust and the Paradox of Memory:Jane Yolen’s The Devil’s Arithmetic

This paper argues that in Jane Yolen’s The Devil’s Arithmetic, children’s imagination and memory become a means of subverting the “logic of war.” To do so, it first examines how Hannah travels back in time to experience her grandparents’ Holocaust firsthand and uses her imagination to resist the violent order of a concentration camp. Next, I analyze the work to demonstrate that she understands and embraces the paradox of “remembering the future” as a strategy for coping with the trauma of the Holocaust. The central thesis of this paper is that through the active act of remembering, children disrupt the “logic of war” of World War II and the Holocaust established by adults and reorganize the space of World War II into a subversive one.