Forgetful Memory
Representation and Remembrance in the Wake of the Holocaust
1st Edition
Published on 31. December 2008
212 pages
978-0-7914-7718-2 (ISBN)
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Examines the role of forgetfulness in our understanding of the Holocaust.
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Michael Bernard-Donals is Nancy Hoefs Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. He has written and edited several books, including (with Richard Glejzer) Between Witness and Testimony: The Holocaust and the Limits of Representation, also published by SUNY Press, and An Introduction to Holocaust Studies.
Content
List of Figures
Acknowledgment
PART I. MEMORY AND FORGETTING
1. On the Verge of History and Memory
2. Ethics, the Immemorial, and Writing
PART II. WRITING AND THE DISASTER
3. "If I forget thee, O Jerusalem": The Poetry of Forgetful Memory in Palestine
4. Memory and the Image in Visual Representations of the Holocaust
5. "Thou Shalt Not Bear False Witness": Witnessand Testimony in the FragmentsControversy
PART III. MEMORY AND THE EVENT
6. Denials of Memory
7. Conflations of Memory; or, What They Saw at the Holocaust Museum after 9/11
8. "Difficult Freedom": Levinas, Memory, and Politics
9. Conclusion: Forgetful Memory and the Disaster
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgment
PART I. MEMORY AND FORGETTING
1. On the Verge of History and Memory
2. Ethics, the Immemorial, and Writing
PART II. WRITING AND THE DISASTER
3. "If I forget thee, O Jerusalem": The Poetry of Forgetful Memory in Palestine
4. Memory and the Image in Visual Representations of the Holocaust
5. "Thou Shalt Not Bear False Witness": Witnessand Testimony in the FragmentsControversy
PART III. MEMORY AND THE EVENT
6. Denials of Memory
7. Conflations of Memory; or, What They Saw at the Holocaust Museum after 9/11
8. "Difficult Freedom": Levinas, Memory, and Politics
9. Conclusion: Forgetful Memory and the Disaster
Notes
Bibliography
Index
