03737nam 2200601 a 450 991096683910332120200520144314.097866122691419781282269149128226914397802991836390299183637(CKB)1000000000473438(EBL)3444719(SSID)ssj0000272906(PQKBManifestationID)11229065(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000272906(PQKBWorkID)10309196(PQKB)11299201(MiAaPQ)EBC3444719(Perlego)4390228(EXLCZ)99100000000047343820020627d2003 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrWitnessing the disaster essays on representation and the Holocaust /edited by Michael Bernard-Donals and Richard Glejzer1st ed.Madison University of Wisconsin Pressc20031 online resource (325 p.)Description based upon print version of record.9780299183608 0299183602 Includes bibliographical references and index.""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""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? These essayists aim to move past the notion that the Holocaust as an event defies representation. They look at specific cases of Holocaust representation and consider their effect, their structure, their authenticity, and the kind of knowledge they produce. Taken together they consider the tension between history and memory, the vexed problem of eyewitness testimony and its status as evidence, and the ethical imperatives of Holocaust representation. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literatureStudy and teachingJudaism and literatureStudy and teachingHolocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literatureStudy and teaching.Judaism and literatureStudy and teaching.809/.93358Bernard-Donals Michael F544966Glejzer Richard R998153MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910966839103321Witnessing the disaster2587621UNINA