Disappearing Traces

Holocaust Testimonials, Ethics, and Aesthetics

Inbunden, Engelska, 2012

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In Disappearing Traces, Dorota Glowacka examines the tensions between the ethical and aesthetic imperatives in literary, artistic, and philosophical works about the Holocaust, in a search for new ways to understand the traumatic past and its impact on the present. She engages with the work of leading 20th-century philosophers and theorists, including Levinas, Benjamin, Lyotard, and Derrida, to consider the role of language in the construction and transmission of traumatic memories; the relation between self-identity and the act of bearing witness; and the ethical implications of representing trauma.Glowacka's work draws on a wide range of discourses and disciplines, bringing into conversation various genres of writing and artistic production. It reveals the need to find innovative idioms and new means of engaging with the past, and to create alliances between different disciplines and modes of representing the past that transform and transcend existing paradigms of representation.

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Utgivningsdatum2012-04-01
Mått152 x 229 x 21 mm
Vikt612 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieStephen S. Weinstein Series in Post-Holocaust StudiesStephen S. Weinstein Series in Post-Holocaust StudiesStephen S. Weinstein Series in Post-Holocaust StudiesStephen S. Weinstein Series in Post-Holocaust StudiesStephen S. Weinstein Series in Post-Holocaust StudiesDisappearing Traces
Antal sidor304
FörlagUniversity of Washington Press
ISBN9780295991689

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AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Disappearing Traces: Holocaust Testimonials between Ethics and Aesthetics1. "Like an Echo without a Source": Subjectivity as Witnessing and the Holocaust Narrative 2. The Tower of Babel: Holocaust Testimonials and the Ethics of Translation 3. Lending an Ear to the Silence Phrase: Holocaust Writing of the Differend 4. Poethics of Disappearing Traces: Levinas, Literary Testimony, and Holocaust Art 5. "Witnesses against Themselves": Encounters with Daughters of Absence Epilogue: "To Write Another Book about the Holocaust . . . " Notes Works Cited Index

"This book is very profound. Every time Glowacka introduces a major thinker into her consideration of the questions at hand she adds a much deeper understanding not only of the question but also of the thinker. This is a must read for Holocaust scholars and teachers." David Patterson, Hillel Feinberg Chair in Holocaust Studies, University of Texas at Dallas "Dorota Glowacka's impassioned and eloquent dialogue with the philoso--pher Emmanuel Levinas makes a persuasive case for translating his ethics into a poetics (what she calls "poethics") that powerfully illuminates post-Holocaust philosophy, literature, and visual art." Karyn Ball, author of Disciplining the Holocaust