Witnessing the disaster : essays on representation and the Holocaust / / edited by Michael Bernard-Donals and Richard Glejzer

• Pubblicazione: Madison, : University of Wisconsin Press, c2003
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (325 p.)
• Disciplina: 809/.93358
• Soggetto topico: Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature - Study and teaching; Judaism and literature - Study and teaching
• Altri autori: Bernard-DonalsMichael F GlejzerRichard R
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: ""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""
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Witnessing the disaster
• ISBN: 9786612269141; 9781282269149; 1282269143; 9780299183639; 0299183637
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910966839103321
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