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

• Pubblicazione: Madison, : University of Wisconsin Press, c2003
• Descrizione fisica: vi, 317 p. ; ; 24 cm
• Soggetto topico: Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature - Study and teaching
• Altri autori: Bernard-DonalsMichael F GlejzerRichard R
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Witnessing the disaster
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 996248243103316
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno
• Serie: ACLS Humanities E-Book.