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absence, 13, 55, 94–95, 107–108, 129, 164n27, 171n35, 172n3 Abu Ghraib, 8, 170n21 Adler, Joyce, 99 After Testimony, 3 Agamben, Giorgio, 6–7, 18, 60, 65–70, 80, 82, 84–85, 98, 163n22, 164n26, 167n60 agency, 23, 141 air (breeze, wind), 7, 12, 15, 18, 22, 33, 39–40, 46, 50, 89, 94, 111–119, 140, 150, 153, 169n13, 172n50 alterity. See otherness America. See United States American Anti-Slavery Society, 11 Anderson, Quentin, 173n23 animation, 2, 35, 45, 121, 123–124, 129, 130–131, 133, 138, 140, 141 anthropomorphism, 23 antislavery movement, 57–58, 63, 80–81 archive, 6–7, 12, 55, 172n50 Arden, 84, 86 Arlington Cemetery, 14–15 Arsić, Branka, 33, 49, 160n4, 162n49, 171n35 As You Like It, 83 Auden, W. H., 123 autobiography, 17, 57, 59–62, 85 Barthes, Roland, 7, 18, 93–94, 102, 150, 175n47 bearing witness: conceptions of, 3–4, 7–11, 14, 19, 27, 67–68, 89, 116, 149, 152; to the dead, 15, 20, 138, 143–145; falsely, 30, 64–65, 98; to the future, 51, 54, 82–87, 99, 135, 141, 151, 162n46; through imagery, 122–124, 129; to nature, 44–47, 49–55, 105, 150; to oneself, 64, 67–71, 82; to other persons, 8, 20–21, 70, 84, 99–101, 164n26; to testimony, without overwriting, 17, 24, 28, 34, 41, 42–56, 59, 67, 89, 97–99, 101–102, 105, 109, 113–114, 117, 119, 169n15 Bennett, Jane, 152, 158n37 Benveniste, Émile, 18, 60, 65–67 Blanchot, Maurice, 114, 156n14 body, 3, 5, 12, 15, 18, 60, 68–71, 80–81, 84–85, 89, 103, 107–108, 117, 150, 161n25, 164n26; bodilessness, 115–116; of corpse, 121, 132; of law, 84; of slave, 60–62, 85, 91–93, 94, 117 breeze. See air Breitweiser, Mitchell, 14, 158n36 Bronfen, Elisabeth, 173n4 Brooks, Peter, 172n3 Brown, Bill, 123, 128–129, 132 Brown, Lee Rust, 29, 30, 32 Burns, Anthony, 59, 73, 77–79 Butler, Andrew, 74–75 Cadava, Eduardo, 16, 55, 63, 160n4, 161n39 Cameron, Sharon, 47–48, 159n3, 174n41, 175n49 Carlyle, Thomas, 40, 124 Caruth, Cathy, 6, 152–153 Index 192 / index Douglass, Frederick, works by: “Let All Soil Be Free Soil,” 69–70, 72, 74, 85; Life and Times, 15, 18, 57–58, 71–73, 80, 82–86; My Bondage and My Freedom, 57, 66–67; Narrative of the Life, 58, 60–61, 63, 65–66, 151; “The Nature of Slavery,” 164n26; “Slavery, Freedom, and the Kansas-Nebraska Act,” 64–65; “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July,” 10–11, 19, 165n39 Downes, Paul, 172n47 Dred Scott v. Sanford, 76 Dryden, Edgar, 5–6, 169n4, 169n14 Eggers, Dave, 172n50 Ellison, Julie, 48 Elmer, Jonathan, 119, 171n36 Emerson, Ralph Waldo: on evidence, 25–26, 30; on expression, 24, 29–30, 34, 38, 40, 42, 44–46, 50, 53; on nature, 17, 23–24, 31–38, 40–55, 88, 150; relation to Henry James, 123–125; on representation, 17, 24, 36–37, 39–56, 89, 160n4 Emerson, Ralph Waldo, works by: “American Civilization,” 157n31; “The American Scholar,” 12, 34–36, 54; “Circles,” 35–37, 123–124; “Experience,” 17, 24, 47–49, 51, 54–55, 86, 124, 151; “Fate,” 160n5; “Goethe,” 33–34; Nature, 17, 22–24, 38, 45–47, 49–50, 54–55; “Nature” (secondseries essay), 17, 24, 49–56; “New England Reformers,” 19; “The Poet,” 43–45, 47, 49, 124; “Self-Reliance,” 17, 24–28, 30–31; “Spiritual Laws,” 17, 24, 28–36, 38, 41, 162n49; “Swedenborg,” 38–41; “Uses of Great Men,” 142 encounter, testimonial, 7, 11–12, 14, 17, 21, 24, 28, 32, 34, 36–37, 42–43, 49–51, 53–55, 107, 115, 134, 150, 153, 158n46 Enlightenment, 13, 81 enunciation, 27, 41, 65–67 ethics, 5, 7, 27, 34, 37, 42–43, 95–98, 100, 151–152, 156n11 everyday (ordinary, common), 2, 12–14, 22–23, 34–37, 42, 46, 48–50, 96, 122–125, 138, 147–148, 150, 152–153 evidence, 1, 6, 8, 168n70; in the Anthony Burns case, 78–79; in the Fugitive Slave Act, 75–76; primary, in Emerson, 25–26, 30 expression: definition of, 29, 133; and quiet testimony, 150–153; and testimony, Cavell, Stanley, 25–26, 29, 160n4 Chai, Leon, 41 character: as expressed, 17, 29–34, 38, 44; of slaves, 75 citizenship, 18, 64–66, 69, 71–72, 76, 79–86 Civil Rights Act, 83–85 Civil Rights Cases, 58, 72, 82–85, 167n59 Civil War, 1–2, 20–21, 58, 81, 157n31...

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