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- The Holocaust and the Nonrepresentable: Literary and Photographic Transcendence
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- 2018
- Published by: State University of New York Press
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Argues that Holocaust representation has ethical implications fundamentally linked to questions of good and evil.
Table of Contents
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- List of Photographs
- pp. vii-x
- Acknowledgments
- pp. xi-xii
- Part One: Reflections on Holocaust Representation and the Nonrepresentable: Theoretical Considerations
- By Way of a Prologue
- pp. 1-3
- Naming Auschwitz
- pp. 12-20
- The Silent Scream
- pp. 36-43
- The Nonrepresentable Site of Silence
- pp. 43-49
- A Memory and a Name
- pp. 72-80
- Part Two: The Literary Transcendence of Holocaust Representation: Speaking the Ineffable
- The Extermination of the Eternal
- pp. 99-108
- The Annihilation of the Father
- pp. 108-114
- The Obliteration of the Mother
- pp. 115-127
- The Collapse of Human Relation
- pp. 127-136
- The Disintegration of Knowledge
- pp. 137-146
- The Devastation of the Word
- pp. 146-155
- The Demolition of Meaning
- pp. 156-163
- The Desolation of the Soul
- pp. 163-172
- The Death of Death
- pp. 172-180
- The Eradication of the Child
- pp. 180-192
- The Legacy of Lot’s Wife
- pp. 194-204
- Footprints
- pp. 204-207
- The Glory under Assault
- pp. 207-212
- The Mothers of Israel
- pp. 212-216
- The Edge of the Anti-World
- pp. 228-232
- The Grave without a Cemetery
- pp. 232-236
- The Muselmann
- pp. 236-241
- Selection: No Judge and No Judgment
- pp. 241-246
- A View from the Gas Chambers
- pp. 246-266
- Bibliography
- pp. 301-318
Additional Information
ISBN
9781438470061
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OCLC
1037272793
Pages
320
Launched on MUSE
2018-06-18
Language
English
Open Access
No
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