Writing the Holocaust : identity, testimony, representation / Zoe Vania Waxman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Waxman, Zoë.

Series:

Oxford historical monographs.

Oxford historical monographs

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Historiography.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives--History and criticism.

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

Holocaust survivors--Biography--History and criticism.

Holocaust survivors.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (238 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Zo--euml--; Waxman examines the full history of Holocaust testimony, from the very first chroniclers confined to Nazi-enforced ghettos, to today's survivors writing as part of collective memory. Showing how dramatically the conditions and motivations for bearing witness have changed, she reveals the multiplicity of Holocaust experience and how different contexts have given rise to very different modes of remembering. - ;Arguing against the prevailing view that Holocaust survivors (encouraged by a new and flourishing culture of 'witnessing') have come forward only recently to tell their stories

Contents:

Contents; Note on Foreign Language Names and Terms; Introduction; 1. Writing as Resistance? Bearing Witness in the Warsaw Ghetto; 2. Writing to Survive: The Testimony of the Concentration Camps; 3. Writing to Remember: The Role of the Survivor; 4. Writing Ignored: Reading Women's Holocaust Testimonies; 5. Writing the Ineffable: The Representation of Testimony; Epilogue; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [189]-214) and index.

ISBN:

0-19-156205-X

1-280-75833-3

0-19-151407-1

1-4294-6000-8

OCLC:

476246925