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Witness and memory : the discourse of trauma / edited by Ana Douglass and Thomas A. Vogler.
- 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:
- 1 online resource (389 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Witness & memory
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Routledge, 2003.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This is a collection within the anthropology of violence and witness studies, a discipline inaugurated in the 1980s. It accomplishes a tight focus while tackling seemingly disparate topics: from Rigoberat Menchu to O.J. Simpson, and from feminist poetry to Hiroshima Mon Amour. With approaches ranging from anthropological and historical to literary and philosophical, this collection is engaging in both subject matter and writing style.
- Contents:
- Cover; Title; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. The Menchu Effect: Strategic Lies and Approximate Truths in Texts of Witness; 2. Excessive Witnessing: The Ethical as Temptation; 3. Witness in the Wilderness: The Tropical Tryst of Claude Lévi-Strauss and Theodore Roosevelt; 4. An All White Jury: Judging Citizenship in the Simpson Criminal Trial; 5. Poetry, Witness, Feminism; 6. Poetic Witness: Writing the Real; 7. The Burning Babe: Children, Film Narrative, and the Figures of Historical Witness
- 8. The Limits of Vision: Hiroshima Mon Amour and the Subversion of Representation9. Ex/propriating Survivor Experience, or Auschwitz ""after"" Lyotard; 10. Between History and Memory: The Voice of the Eyewitness; Notes on Contributors; Notes; Works Cited; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [331]-360) and index.
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-136-07362-0
- 1-283-84334-X
- 1-136-07354-X
- 0-203-44663-1
- 9780203446638
- OCLC:
- 821176480
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