Belated Witness

Michael G. Levine is Associate Professor of German at Rutgers University. He is the author of Writing Through Repression: Literature, Censorship, Psychoanalysis (1994) and translator of Samuel Weber's Return to Freud: Jacques Lacan's Dislocation of Psychoanalysis (1991).

• @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)