The belated witness : literature, testimony, and the question of Holocaust survival / Michael G. Levine.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Levine, Michael G.

Series:

Cultural memory in the present

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) in literature.

Holocaust survivors' writings--History and criticism.

Holocaust survivors' writings.

Literature, Modern--20th century--History and criticism.

Literature, Modern.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Psychological aspects.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).

Psychological aspects.

Physical Description:

xii, 236 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2006.

Summary:

The Belated Witness stakes out an original place within the field of recent work on the theory and practice of literary writing after the Holocaust. Drawing in productive and unsettling ways from converging work in history, philosophy, psychoanalysis, and literature, the book asks how the events of the Holocaust force us to alter traditional conceptions about human experience, as well as the way we can now talk and write about such experiences. Rather than providing a mere account of an outside or inside reality, literature after the Holocaust sets itself a more radical task: it testifies to unspeakable experiences in a specific mode of address, a call or summons to another in whose sole power resides the possibility of a future response to such testimonies of world-historical trauma.

Contents:

Necessary stains : the bleeding of history in Spiegelman's Maus I

The vanishing point : Spiegelman's Maus II

Writing anxiety : Christa Wolf's Patterns of childhood and the throat of the witness

Toward an addressable you : Ozick's The shawl and the mouth of the witness

Silent wine : Celan and the poetics of belatedness.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [225]-231) and index.

ISBN:

0804730806

9780804730808

0804755558

9780804755559

OCLC:

65820118

Publisher Number:

9780804755559