02702nam 2200337 a 450 99624824310331620220211194215.0(dli)HEB06633(CKB)3360000000000528(EXLCZ)99336000000000052820040126d2003 uy 0engurmnummmmuuuuWitnessing the disaster[electronic resource] essays on representation and the Holocaust /edited by Michael Bernard-Donals and Richard GlejzerMadisonUniversity of Wisconsin Pressc2003vi, 317 p. ;24 cmOriginal 0299183602 0299183645 (DLC) 2002010203 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 indentification 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.ACLS Humanities E-Book.Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literatureStudy and teachingHolocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literatureStudy and teaching.Bernard-Donals Michael F544966Glejzer Richard R998153American Council of Learned Societies.NyNyACLNyNyACLBOOK996248243103316Witnessing the disaster2587621UNISA