LEADER 03609nam 2200637 a 450 001 9910461003803321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-283-36632-0 010 $a9786613366320 010 $a94-012-0706-2 035 $a(CKB)2670000000131446 035 $a(EBL)819923 035 $a(OCoLC)768083040 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000638480 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12208162 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000638480 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10715150 035 $a(PQKB)11412943 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC819923 035 $a(OCoLC)774046986 035 $a(nllekb)BRILL9789401207065 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL819923 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10519663 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL336632 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000131446 100 $a20111222d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe memory of pain$b[electronic resource] $ewomen's testimonies of the Holocaust /$fCamila Loew 210 $aAmsterdam $cRodopi$d2011 215 $a1 online resource (247 p.) 225 1 $aValue inquiry book series. Holocaust and genocide studies ;$vv. 237 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a90-420-3421-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aPreliminary Material -- CENTURY OF EXTREMES, CENTURY OF TESTIMONY -- CHARLOTTE DELBO: THE SPECTACLE OF HURT MEMORY -- MARGARETE BUBER-NEUMANN: WITNESS TO THE CENTURY -- RUTH KLÜGER: EMBRACING EXCLUSION -- MARGUERITE DURAS: WITNESS TO THE WITNESS -- CONCLUSION -- WORKS CITED -- ABOUT THE AUTHOR -- INDEX -- VIBS. 330 $aIn this book, Camila Loew analyzes four women?s testimonial literary writings on the Holocaust to examine and question some of the tenets of the fields of Holocaust studies, gender studies, and testimony. Through a close reading of the works of Charlotte Delbo, Margarete Buber-Neumann, Ruth Klüger, and Marguerite Duras, Loew foregrounds these authors? search for a written form to engage with their experiences of the extreme. Although each chapter contains its individual focus and features, the book possesses a unity in intention, concerns, and consequences. In the theoretical introduction that unites the four chapters, Loew eschews essentialism and revises the emergence of the field of Women and Holocaust studies from the early 1980's on, and signals some of its shortcomings. In response, and in accordance with a recent turn in various disciplines of the Humanities, Loew highlights the ethical dimension of testimony and its responsible commitment to the other. In dealing with the texts as literary testimonies?a complex genre, between literature and history?, testimony is freed from the obligation to respond to the requirements of factual truth, and becomes a privileged form to voice the traumatic event, and to symbolically explore the role of excess. 410 0$aValue inquiry book series.$pHolocaust and genocide studies ;$vv. 237. 606 $aHolocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature 606 $aHolocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)$xPsychological aspects 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aHolocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature. 615 0$aHolocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)$xPsychological aspects. 676 $a940.53/18 676 $a940.5318 700 $aLoew$b Camila$0945345 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910461003803321 996 $aThe memory of pain$92134192 997 $aUNINA