Auschwitz and afterimages
Subtitle: abjection, witnessing, and representation
By: Nicholas Chare
Series: New encounters; New encounters (London, England)
Publisher: I. B. Tauris
Published: 2011
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 194
ISBN-13: 9781848855908; 9781848855915
Subjects: Historiography; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Auschwitz (Concentration camp); Abjection in literature; Historiography and photography
Description: In 1980, Julia Kristeva's essay on abjection, Pouvoirs de l'horreur, was first published in France and subsequently translated into English as Powers of horror. Nicholas Chare's book provides a critical and careful reassessment of Kristeva's often misunderstood writings on the abject and a crucial appraisal of the value the concept abjection holds for the study of the witnessing and representation of the Holocaust.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [177]-187) and index.
Table of contents: title: Execrable speech; title: Fascinating facture; title: Background noise; title: Amidst the nightmare; title: Under the skin; title: Afterimages.