LEADER 03737nam 2200601 a 450 001 9910966839103321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a9786612269141 010 $a9781282269149 010 $a1282269143 010 $a9780299183639 010 $a0299183637 035 $a(CKB)1000000000473438 035 $a(EBL)3444719 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000272906 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11229065 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000272906 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10309196 035 $a(PQKB)11299201 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3444719 035 $a(Perlego)4390228 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000473438 100 $a20020627d2003 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aWitnessing the disaster $eessays on representation and the Holocaust /$fedited by Michael Bernard-Donals and Richard Glejzer 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aMadison $cUniversity of Wisconsin Press$dc2003 215 $a1 online resource (325 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 08$a9780299183608 311 08$a0299183602 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $a""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"" 327 $a""11 Shoah and the Origins of Teaching""""12 Teaching (after) Auschwitz: Pedagogy between Redemption and Sublimity""; ""13 Approaching Limit Events""; ""Contributors""; ""Index"" 330 8 $aWitnessing 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. 606 $aHolocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature$xStudy and teaching 606 $aJudaism and literature$xStudy and teaching 615 0$aHolocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature$xStudy and teaching. 615 0$aJudaism and literature$xStudy and teaching. 676 $a809/.93358 701 $aBernard-Donals$b Michael F$0544966 701 $aGlejzer$b Richard R$0998153 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910966839103321 996 $aWitnessing the disaster$92587621 997 $aUNINA