| Description |
1 online resource (vi, 317 pages) |
| Contents |
Introduction : Representations of the Holocaust and the end of memory / Michael Bernard-Donals and Richard Glejzer -- I. The epistemology of witness -- The Holocaust as vicarious past : Art Spiegelman's Maus and the afterimages of history / James E. Young -- "The language of dollars" : Multilingualism and the claims of English in Hasidic tales of the Holocaust / Alan Rosen -- A pedagogy of trauma (or a crisis of cynicism) : Teaching, writing, and the Holocaust / Janet Alsup -- The "erotics of Auschwitz" : Coming of age in The painted bird and Sophie's choice / Sharon Oster -- Maus and the epistemology of witness / Richard Glejzer -- II. Memory, authenticity, and the "Jewish question" -- Promiscuous reading : The problem of identification and Anne Frank's Diary / Susan David Bernstein -- Humboldt's gift and Jewish American self-fashioning "after Auschwitz" / Elizabeth Jane Bellamy -- Mormon literature and the irreducible other : Writing the unspeakable in Holocaust literature / Reinhold Hill -- Beyond the question of authenticity : Witness and testimony in the Fragments controversy / Michael Bernard-Donals -- III. Ethical imperative -- Maurice Blanchot : Fighting spirit / Geoffrey Hartman -- Shoah and the origins of teaching / David Metzger -- Teaching (after) Auschwitz : Pedagogy between redemption and sublimity / Michael Bernard-Donls and Richard Glejzer -- Approaching limit events : siting Agamben / Dominick LaCapra |
| Summary |
"Witnessing the Disaster examines how histories, films, stories and novels, memorials and museums, and survivor testimonies involve problems of witnessing: how do those who survived, and those who lived long after the Holocaust, make clear to us what happened? How can we distinguish between more and less authentic accounts? Are histories more adequate descriptors of the horror than narrative? Does the susceptibility of survivor accounts to faulty memory and the vestiges of trauma make them any more or less useful as instruments of witness? And how do we authenticate their accuracy without giving those who deny the Holocaust a small but dangerous foothold?"--Google books viewed Feb. 12, 2021 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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| Subject |
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature -- Study and teaching
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Judaism and literature -- Study and teaching
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TRAVEL -- Special Interest -- Literary.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- General.
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Judenvernichtung Motiv
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Literatur
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Holocaust.
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Musea.
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Letterkunde.
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Filmkunst.
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Representatie (algemeen)
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| Genre/Form |
Aufsatzsammlung.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Bernard-Donals, Michael F.
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Glejzer, Richard R.
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| LC no. |
2002010203 |
| ISBN |
9780299183639 |
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0299183637 |
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9780299183608 |
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0299183602 |
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9780299183646 |
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0299183645 |
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1282269143 |
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9781282269149 |
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9786612269141 |
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6612269146 |
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