Disappearing traces : Holocaust testimonials, ethics, and aesthetics

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Glowacka, Dorota, Author.

Series:

Stephen S. Weinstein series in post-Holocaust studies Disappearing traces

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Moral and ethical aspects.

Art--Moral and ethical aspects.

Art.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (304 p.)

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] University of Washington Press 2012

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In Disappearing Traces, Dorota Glowacka examines the tensions between the ethical and aesthetic imperatives in literary, artistic, and philosophical works about the Holocaust, in a search for new ways to understand the traumatic past and its impact on the present. She engages with the work of leading 20th-century philosophers and theorists, including Levinas, Benjamin, Lyotard, and Derrida, to consider the role of language in the construction and transmission of traumatic memories; the relation between self-identity and the act of bearing witness; and the ethical implications of representing trauma. Glowacka's work draws on a wide range of discourses and disciplines, bringing into conversation various genres of writing and artistic production. It reveals the need to find innovative idioms and new means of engaging with the past, and to create alliances between different disciplines and modes of representing the past that transform and transcend existing paradigms of representation.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Disappearing Traces: Holocaust Testimonials between Ethics and Aesthetics

Chapter one “Like an Echo without a Source” Subjectivity as Witnessing and the Holocaust Narrative

Chapter two. The Tower of Babel: Holocaust Testimonials and the Ethics of Translation

Chapter three. Lending an Ear to the Silence Phrase Holocaust Writing of the Differend

Chapter four. Poethics of Disappearing Traces: Levinas, Literary Testimony, and Holocaust Art

Chapter five “Witnesses against Themselves” Encounters with Daughters of Absence

Epilogue “To Write Another Book about the Holocaust . . . ”

Notes

Works cited

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

ISBN:

9780295804156

0295804157

OCLC:

961662261