Witnessing Witnessing
Subtitle: On the Reception of Holocaust Survivor Testimony
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780823244485
Subjects: Holocaust, jewish (1939-1945), personal narratives; Holocaust survivors
Description: "Witnessing Witnessing focuses critical attention on those who receive the testimony of Holocaust survivors. Questioning the notion that traumatic experience is intrinsically unspeakable and that the Holocaust thus lies in a quasi-sacred realm beyond history, the book asks whether much current theory does not have the effect of silencing the voices of real historical victims. It thereby challenges widely accepted theoretical views about the representation of trauma in general and the Holocaust in particular as set forth by Giorgio Agamben, Cathy Caruth, Berel Lang, and Dori Laub. It also reconsiders, in the work of Theodor Adorno and Emmanuel Levinas, reflections on ethics and aesthetics after Auschwitz as these pertain to the reception of testimony"--Publisher website.