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Representing Auschwitz : at the margins of testimony / ed. by Nicholas Chare and Dominic Williams

Chare, Nicholas ; Williams, Dominic

Houndmills, Basingstoke [u.a.] : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013

XIII, 233 S. : Ill.

Englisch

1. The harmony of barbarism: locating the 'Scrolls of Auschwitz' in Holocaust historiography / Dan Stone2. On the problem of empathy: attending to gaps in the Scrolls of Auschwitz / Nicholas Chare

3. 'The dead are my teachers': the Scrolls of Auschwitz in Jerome Rothenberg's Khurbn / Dominic Williams

4. Chain of testimony: the Holocaust researcher as surrogate witness / Anne Karpf

5. What remains - genocide and things / Ulrike Kistner

6. Representing the Einsatzgruppen: the outtakes of Claude Lanzmann's Shoah / Sue Vice

7. Reconciling history in Alain Resnais's L'Anne;e derni / Marienbad (1961) ; Hannah Mowat with Emma Wilson

8. Gender and sexuality in women survivors' personal narratives / Cathy S. Gelbin

9. Art as transport station of trauma? haunting objects in the works of Bracha Ettinger, Sarah Kofman, and Chantal Akerman / Griselda Pollock

Coda: Reading Witness Discourse / Hayden White.

eb 20240324 ; 1 (Rechtsgrundlage DE-4165)

978-1-137-29768-6 (hardback)

2013031319

OCoLC: 864561600     

OCoLC: 864561600 (aus SWB)     

D804.348

940.53/18     Ähnliche Literatur

Basisklassifikation: 15.43 (Deutsche Geschichte des 19. Jahrhunderts bis zur Gegenwart) ; 15.96 (Geschichte des jüdischen Volkes außerhalb des Staates Israel) ; 89.21 (Faschismus)

SSG-Nummer(n): 7,41; 8; 8,1

*Judenvernichtung ; Geschichtsschreibung ; Aufsatzsammlung      Zum Register

LOC-SH: Auschwitz (Concentration camp) ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Historiography ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Influence ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)

"The Holocaust is often described as beyond representation. Drawing on interdisciplinary perspectives, this ground-breaking collection of essays by leading international scholars takes the Scrolls of Auschwitz as its starting point. These powerful hand-written testimonies, which were buried in the grounds of the crematoria at Birkenau in 1944, seek to bear witness to mass murder from at its core. The accounts, which are often marginalized in studies of Holocaust testimony, are frequently highly literary and ask significant questions of the notion that Auschwitz cannot be attested to. The volume also includes a number of essays that consider other forms of testimony, in media such as film, literature and video, which have also been marginalized as they fail to conform to dominant ideas about the nature and structure of the event"--

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"The Holocaust is often described as beyond representation. Drawing on interdisciplinary perspectives, this ground-breaking collection of essays by leading international scholars takes the Scrolls of Auschwitz as its starting point. These powerful hand-written testimonies, which were buried in the grounds of the crematoria at Birkenau in 1944, seek to bear witness to mass murder from at its core. The accounts, which are often marginalized in studies of Holocaust testimony, are frequently highly literary and ask significant questions of the notion that Auschwitz cannot be attested to. The volume also includes a number of essays that consider other forms of testimony, in media such as film, literature and video, which have also been marginalized as they fail to conform to dominant ideas about the nature and structure of the event"--