Witnessing Witnessing : On the Reception of Holocaust Survivor Testimony.
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TextPublisher: New York : Fordham University Press, 2013Copyright date: ©2014Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (332 pages)Content type: - text
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- 9780823250448
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Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. Frames of Reception -- 2. Trauma and Theory -- 3. Art after Auschwitz, Again -- 4. Theory and Testimony -- 5. The Survivor as Other -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.
Witnessing Witnessing approaches Holocaust survivor testimony by focusing attention on those who receive it. It challenges current theoretical views about trauma and the Holocaust that tend to silence the voices of survivors, and seeks to show how making these voices heard requires a practice of community.
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