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- Witnessing the Disaster: Essays on Representation and the Holocaust
- Book
- 2003
- Published by: University of Wisconsin Press
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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.
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.
Table of Contents
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- I. The Epistemology of Witness
- pp. 20-22
- 5. Maus and the Epistemology of Witness
- pp. 125-140
- III. The Ethical Imperative
- pp. 218-220
- 10. Maurice Blanchot: Fighting Spirit
- pp. 221-230
- 11. Shoah and the Origins of Teaching
- pp. 231-251
- 13. Approaching Limit Events: Siting Agamben
- pp. 262-306
- Contributors
- pp. 307-308
Additional Information
ISBN
9780299183639
Related ISBN(s)
9780299183608, 9780299183646
MARC Record
OCLC
290525725
Pages
323
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No
Copyright
2003