Representing Auschwitz [electronic resource] : At the Margins of Testimony /
Chare, N.editor.
Williams, D.editor.
This collection of essays by leading international scholars takes the Scrolls of Auschwitz as its starting point. These powerful hand-written testimonies, produced within Birkenau, seek to bear witness to mass murder from at its core. The highly literary accounts pose a fundamental challenge to the idea the Holocaust cannot be attested to.
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. The harmony of barbarism: locating the 'Scrolls of Auschwitz' in Holocaust historiography / Dan Stone -- 2. 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.
This collection of essays by leading international scholars takes the Scrolls of Auschwitz as its starting point. These powerful hand-written testimonies, produced within Birkenau, seek to bear witness to mass murder from at its core. The highly literary accounts pose a fundamental challenge to the idea the Holocaust cannot be attested to.
Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
Europe-History.
History, Modern.
World War, 1939-1945.
Judaism.
Civilization-History.
Social history.
European History.
Modern History.
History of World War II and the Holocaust.
Judaism.
Cultural History.
Social History.