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Record Nr.

UNINA9910818467603321

Titolo

Witnessing the disaster : essays on representation and the Holocaust / / edited by Michael Bernard-Donals and Richard Glejzer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Madison, : University of Wisconsin Press, c2003

ISBN

1-282-26914-3

9786612269141

0-299-18363-7

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (325 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

Bernard-DonalsMichael F

GlejzerRichard R

Disciplina

809/.93358

Soggetti

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature - Study and teaching

Judaism and literature - Study and teaching

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Contents""; ""Introduction""; ""I The Epistemology of Witness""; ""1 The Holocaust as Vicarious Past""; ""2 "The Language of Dollars"""; ""3 A Pedagogy of Trauma (or a Crisis of Cynicism)""; ""4 The "Erotics of Auschwitz"""; ""5 Maus and the Epistemology of Witness""; ""II Memory, Authenticity, and the "Jewish Question"""; ""6 Promiscuous Reading""; ""7 Humboldt's Gift and Jewish American Self-Fashioning ""After Auschwitz""""; ""8 Mormon Literature and the Irreducible Other""; ""9 Beyond the Question of Authenticity""; ""III The Ethical Imperative""; ""10 Maurice Blanchot""

""11 Shoah and the Origins of Teaching""""12 Teaching (after) Auschwitz: Pedagogy between Redemption and Sublimity""; ""13 Approaching Limit Events""; ""Contributors""; ""Index""