The Palgrave handbook of testimony and culture / edited by Sara Jones, Roger Woods.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Jones, Sara, 1980- editor.

Woods, Roger, 1949- editor.

ProQuest ebook central

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social justice.

Collective memory.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxv, 630 pages) : illustrations (some color)

Place of Publication:

Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2023]

Contents:

1. Introduction: Testimony in Culture and Cultures of Testimony; Sara Jones and Roger Woods

Concepts in Testimony

2. Bearing Witness as Truth Practice: The Twofold - Discursive and Existential - Character of Telling Truth in Testimony; Sybille Krmer

3. Bearing Witness as a Boundary Case: Survivor Testimony, Legal Testimony and Historical Testimony; Sigrid Weigel

4. Testimonies in Historiography and Oral History; Achim Saupe and Helen Roche

5. Gendered Testimonies at the Dawn of the Twenty-First Century; Olga Michael

6. Queer Dignity: Intersections of Testimonial Queerness in Theatre, Performance, and the Visual Arts; Isaias Fanlo

7. The Cultural Contexts of Testimony: The WEIRDness of Global Cosmopolitan Norms; Sara Jones and Mark A. Wolfgram

Mediations and Methodologies

8. Autobiography as Testimony; Katherine Stone and Roger Woods

9. Fictionalisation of Testimony; Carmen-Francesca Banciu, Alexandra Effe, and Melissa Schuh

10. Testimony and Film; Mnica Jato

11. Filming Interviews with Witnesses to Genocide; Rmy Besson

12. The Sensual Memory of Shoah. The Meaning of Sound, Touch and Taste in the Culture of Testimonies; va Kovcs

13. Digital Testimony and Social Media; Ana Beln Martnez Garca and Christian Karner

14. Distributed Remembering: Virtual Reality Testimonies and Immersive Witnessing; Silke Arnold-de Simine and Eugene Chng

15. Digital Archiving and Teaching with German-language Testimony on the Holocaust in the Twenty-First Century A German and Transnational Perspective; Christina Brning, Verena Ngel, Sanna Stegmaier

The Ethics and Practice of Testimony

16. Testimony, Memorialisation, and Museums: A Crisis in Holocaust Education?; Claudia Reese and Louise Stafford

17. Testimony in Public Commemoration and Education for the United Kingdoms Holocaust Memorial Day; Rachel Century, Isabel Wollaston, Alex Blake

18. Testifying to Genocide: A Creative and Critical Use of Memory and Testimony in Holocaust Education in the UK and Canada; Fransiska Louwagie, Caroline Sharples, Charlotte Schalli, Andrea Web

19. Bearing Witness: Testimony and Transitional Justice in the Aftermath of Mass Violence; Stephen Cody and Eric Stover

20. Culture Clash: Doing Justice and Bearing Witness in the Testimonial Process at War Crimes Tribunals; Helena Vranov Schoorl, Sara Rubert, Kimi Lynn King, James David Meernik

21. The Rhetoric of Witnessing: Political Address, Historical Justice, and Commemoration of Traumatic Events; Bradford Vivian and Stephanie Arel

22. Community Education Projects Giving Voice: The Use of Testimony to Facilitate Understanding in Pursuit of Justice and Sustainable Peace in a Society Emerging from Conflict; Jim Keys, Stephen Gargan, Alan McCully

23. Testimony on Whose Terms? The Cultural Politics of Forced Migration Testimony; Hari Reed and Rebecca Hayes Laughton

24. Perpetrator Testimony; Ute Hirsekorn and Sue Vice.-25. Testimonies of the Self and Others: Sara Jones and Emilie Pine in Dialogue; Sara Jones and Emilie Pine.

Notes:

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.

Description based upon online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed April 24th, 2023).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version: Palgrave handbook of testimony and culture.

ISBN:

9783031137945

3031137949

Publisher Number:

90100401582

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.