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Witnessing Others in Narrative Collaboration: Ethical Responsibility beyond Recognition
- Biography
- University of Hawai'i Press
- Volume 37, Number 3, Summer 2014
- pp. 762-783
- 10.1353/bio.2014.0069
- Article
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This article examines the ethical responsibilities of relating and responding to subjects of oppression in the context of collaborative life writing. One well-established ethical response to oppression is the practice of recognition. Drawing on the phenomenological ethics of Emmanuel Levinas and Paul Ricoeur, as well as the related work of Kelly Oliver, I raise some of the limitations of recognition, and delineate the ethical alternative of witnessing, bringing both to bear on my collaborative work with Holocaust survivor Rhodea Shandler.