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Könyv Witnessing Witnessing Thomas Trezise

Witnessing Witnessing

On the Reception of Holocaust Survivor Testimony

Szerző: Thomas Trezise
Nyelv: Angol
Kötés: Puha kötésű
Kiadó: Fordham University Press
Elérhetőség: Beszállítói készleten
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Witnessing Witnessing focuses critical attention on those who receive the testimony of Holocaust sur...

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Szerző
Thomas Trezise
Nyelv
Angol
Kötés
Könyv - Puha kötésű
Kiadva
2013
oldal
336
EAN
9780823244492
ISBN
0823244490
Enbook ID
04941258
Kiadó
Fordham University Press
Súly
458
Méretek
154 x 226 x 18

Teljes leírás

Witnessing Witnessing focuses critical attention on those who receive the testimony of Holocaust survivors. Questioning the notion that traumatic experience is intrinsically unspeakable and that the Holocaust thus lies in a quasi-sacred realm beyond history, the book asks whether much current theory does not have the effect of silencing the voices of real historical victims. It thereby challenges widely accepted theoretical views about the representation of trauma in general and the Holocaust in particular as set forth by Giorgio Agamben, Cathy Caruth, Berel Lang, and Dori Laub. It also reconsiders, in the work of Theodor Adorno and Emmanuel Levinas, reflections on ethics and aesthetics after Auschwitz as these pertain to the reception of testimony. Referring at length to videotaped testimony and to texts by Charlotte Delbo, Primo Levi, and Jorge Semprun, the book aims to make these voices heard. In doing so, it clarifies the problems that anyone receiving testimony may ncounter and emphasizes the degree to which listening to survivors depends on listening to ourselves and to one another. Witnessing Witnessing seeks to show how, in the situation of address in which Holocaust survivors call upon us, we discover our own tacit assumptions about the nature of community and the very manner in which we practice it.

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