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Belated Witness

Literature, Testimony, and the Question of Holocaust Survival

Inbunden, Engelska, 2006

AvMichael G. Levine

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The Belated Witness stakes out an original place within the field of recent work on the theory and practice of literary writing after the Holocaust. Drawing in productive and unsettling ways from converging work in history, philosophy, psychoanalysis, and literature, the book asks how the events of the Holocaust force us to alter traditional conceptions about human experience, as well as the way we can now talk and write about such experiences. Rather than providing a mere account of an outside or inside reality, literature after the Holocaust sets itself a more radical task: it testifies to unspeakable experiences in a specific mode of address, a call or summons to another in whose sole power resides the possibility of a future response to such testimonies of world-historical trauma.

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Utgivningsdatum2006-08-17
Mått152 x 229 x 19 mm
Vikt517 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieCultural Memory in the Present
Antal sidor256
FörlagStanford University Press
ISBN9780804730808

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@fmct:Contents @toc4:Acknowledgmentsiii @toc2:1. Introduction1 2. Necessary Stains: The Bleeding of History in Spiegelman's maus I000 3. The Vanishing Point: Spiegelman's maus II000 4. Writing Anxiety: Christa Wolf's Patterns of Childhood and the Throat of the Witness000 5. Toward an Addressable You: Ozick's The Shawl and the Mouth of the Witness000 6. Silent Wine: Celan and the Poetics of Belatedness000 @toc4:Notes000 Works Cited000 Index000

"The Belated Witness is a remarkable book and a stunning accomplishment. This beautiful, finely wrought, and impeccably argued text makes a vital and refreshing contribution to existing scholarship in a number of fields: Holocaust literary studies, contemporary German literature, psychoanalytic literary criticism, and literary theory, more generally. Timely, profound, thoughtful, and ambitious in scope, it could very well become an instant classic of literary criticism."—Elissa Marder, Emory University "The book's importance lies not only in its insights into particular texts, but in its redefinition of testimony and our responses to it. This is an outstanding work." - Marianne Hirsch (Columbia University)