LEADER 03759nam 2200673Ia 450 001 9910965089003321 005 20230207230052.0 010 $a9780791477182 010 $a0791477185 010 $a9781441603661 010 $a1441603662 024 7 $a10.1515/9780791477182 035 $a(CKB)1000000000722519 035 $a(OCoLC)316510710 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10575847 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000157141 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12046685 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000157141 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10130441 035 $a(PQKB)10976994 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3407421 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3407421 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10575847 035 $a(DE-B1597)683359 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780791477182 035 $a(Perlego)2671588 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000722519 100 $a20080128d2009 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aForgetful memory $erepresentation and remembrance in the wake of the Holocaust /$fMichael Bernard-Donals 210 $aAlbany $cState University of New York Press$dc2009 215 $a1 online resource (214 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 08$a9780791476710 311 08$a0791476715 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 183-190) and index. 327 $aPt. I. Memory and forgetting. On the verge of history and memory -- Ethics, the immemorial, and writing -- Pt. II. Writing and the disaster. -- "If I forget thee, O Jerusalem" : the poetry of forgetful memory in Palestine -- Memory and the image in visual representations of the Holocaust -- "Thou shalt not bear false witness" : witness and testimony in the Fragments controversy -- Pt. III. Memory and the event. Denials of memory -- Conflations of memory; or, what they saw at the Holocaust Museum after 9/11 -- "Difficult freedom" : Levinas, memory, and politics -- Conclusion : forgetful memory and the disaster 330 $aMuch of the discussion surrounding the Holocaust and how it can be depicted sixty years later has focused on memory. In Forgetful Memory, Michael Bernard-Donals focuses on the relation between memory and forgetfulness, arguing that memory and forgetfulness cannot be separated but must be examined as they complicate our understanding of the Shoah. Drawing on the work of Josef Yerushalmi, Maurice Blanchot, David Roskies, and especially Emmanuel Levinas, Bernard-Donals explores contemporary representations of the Holocaust in memoirs, novels, and poetry; films and photographs; in museums; and in our contemporary political discourse concerning the Middle East. Ultimately, Forgetful Memory makes the case that we should give up on the idea of memory as a kind of representation, and that we should see it instead as an intersection of remembrance and oblivion, as a kind of writing, where what remains at its margins?what is left unwritten?is at least as important as what is given voice. 606 $aHolocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)$xHistoriography 606 $aHolocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)$xInfluence 606 $aHolocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)$xMoral and ethical aspects 606 $aMemory$xSocial aspects 615 0$aHolocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)$xHistoriography. 615 0$aHolocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)$xInfluence. 615 0$aHolocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)$xMoral and ethical aspects. 615 0$aMemory$xSocial aspects. 676 $a940.53/18 700 $aBernard-Donals$b Michael F$0544966 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910965089003321 996 $aForgetful memory$94367479 997 $aUNINA