Disappearing Traces
Holocaust Testimonials, Ethics, and Aesthetics
Will be published approx. on 1. October 2012
Book
Paperback/Softback
304 pages
978-0-295-99169-6 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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.
Reviews / Votes
"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 HolocaustMore details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Seattle
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
19 illus., 3 in color
Dimensions
Height: 226 mm
Width: 150 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
476 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-295-99169-6 (9780295991696)
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E-Book
10/2012
1st Edition
University of Washington Press
€33.99
Available for download
Person
Dorota Glowacka
Content
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Disappearing Traces: Holocaust Testimonials between Ethics and Aesthetics
1. "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
Introduction: Disappearing Traces: Holocaust Testimonials between Ethics and Aesthetics
1. "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