Bernard-Donals / Glejzer Between Witness and Testimony

The Holocaust and the Limits of Representation
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-7914-8967-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 208 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Examines the ethical and pedagogical stakes of representing the Holocaust in books, films, and museum exhibits.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bernard-Donals, Michael

Glejzer, Richard

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Europäische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien: Literatur & Kunst

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
Acknowledgments 1. Sublimity, Redemption, Witness 2. History and the Disaster: The(Im)possibility of Writing the Shoah 3. The Epistemology of Witness: Survivor Narratives and the Holocaust 4. Literatures of Presence and Absence: Borowski, Appelfeld, Ozick 5. Film and the Shoah: The Limits of Seeing 6. Museums and the Imperative of Memory: History, Sublimity, and the Divine 7. Conclusion: The Ethics of Teaching (after) Auschwitz Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Michael Bernard-Donals is Professor of English and Jewish Studies at the University of Wisconsin, and the author of The Practice of Theory: Rhetoric, Knowledge, and Pedagogy in the Academy and Mikhail Bakhtin: Between Phenomenology and Marxism. Richard Glejzer is Assistant Professor of English at North Central College. They are the coeditors of Rhetoric in an Antifoundational World: Language, Culture, and Pedagogy.