Between Witness and Testimony
The Holocaust and the Limits of Representation
1st Edition
Published on 1. February 2012
208 pages
978-0-7914-8967-3 (ISBN)
Description
Examines the ethical and pedagogical stakes of representing the Holocaust in books, films, and museum exhibits.
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Michael Bernard-Donals | Richard Glejzer
Between Witness and Testimony
The Holocaust and the Limits of Representation
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10/2001
State University of New York Press
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Michael Bernard-Donals | Richard Glejzer
Between Witness and Testimony
The Holocaust and the Limits of Representation
Book
10/2001
State University of New York Press
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Michael Bernard-Donals is Professor of English and Jewish Studies at the University of Wisconsin, and the author of The Practice of Theory: Rhetoric, Knowledge, and Pedagogy in the Academy and Mikhail Bakhtin: Between Phenomenology and Marxism. Richard Glejzer is Assistant Professor of English at North Central College. They are the coeditors of Rhetoric in an Antifoundational World: Language, Culture, and Pedagogy.
Content
Preface
Acknowledgments 1. Sublimity, Redemption, Witness 2. History and the Disaster: The(Im)possibility of Writing the Shoah 3. The Epistemology of Witness: Survivor Narratives and the Holocaust 4. Literatures of Presence and Absence: Borowski, Appelfeld, Ozick 5. Film and the Shoah: The Limits of Seeing 6. Museums and the Imperative of Memory: History, Sublimity, and the Divine 7. Conclusion: The Ethics of Teaching (after) Auschwitz Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments 1. Sublimity, Redemption, Witness 2. History and the Disaster: The(Im)possibility of Writing the Shoah 3. The Epistemology of Witness: Survivor Narratives and the Holocaust 4. Literatures of Presence and Absence: Borowski, Appelfeld, Ozick 5. Film and the Shoah: The Limits of Seeing 6. Museums and the Imperative of Memory: History, Sublimity, and the Divine 7. Conclusion: The Ethics of Teaching (after) Auschwitz Bibliography
Index
