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Witness and memory : the discourse of trauma / edited by Ana Douglass and Thomas A. Vogler.
Van Pelt Library BF378.S65 W58 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Memory--Social aspects.
- Memory.
- Memory--Political aspects.
- Witnesses.
- Psychic trauma.
- History--Psychological aspects.
- History.
- Social perception.
- Social psychology.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 375 pages ; 24 cm
- Other Title:
- Witness & memory
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Routledge, 2003.
- Summary:
- In an era of atrocities, and in a world increasingly marked by trauma, we are challenged to understand the nature of violence and its effects. Witness and Memory uncovers a number of paradoxes related to the act of witnessing, including: questions of individual versus collective voice, the intersection of history and memory, unmediated truth and literary form, and the commercialism and fraud that have plagued efforts to "remember" atrocities. Approaching witness studies from anthropological and historical to literary and philosophical perspectives, this book will be a landmark collection within the emerging field of the anthropology of violence and witness studies.
- Contents:
- 1. The Menchu Effect: Strategic Lies and Approximate Truths in Texts of Witness / Ana Douglass 55
- 2. Excessive Witnessing: The Ethical as Temptation / Joseba Zulaika 89
- 3. Witness in the Wilderness: The Tropical Tryst of Claude Levi-Strauss and Theodore Roosevelt / William A. Douglass 109
- 4. An All White Jury: Judging Citizenship in the Simpson Criminal Trial / Cindy Patton 129
- 5. Poetry, Witness, Feminism / Harriet Davidson 153
- 6. Poetic Witness: Writing the Real / Thomas A. Vogler 173
- 7. The Burning Babe: Children, Film Narrative, and the Figures of Historical Witness / Tyrus Miller 207
- 8. The Limits of Vision: Hiroshima Mon Amour and the Subversion of Representation / Kyo Maclear 233
- 9. Ex/propriating Survivor Experience, or Auschwitz "after" Lyotard / Karyn Ball 249
- 10. Between History and Memory: The Voice of the Eyewitness / James E. Young 275.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [331]-360) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0415944546
- 0415944554
- OCLC:
- 51059281
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