The Belated Witness : Literature, Testimony, and the Question of Holocaust Survival / Michael G. Levine.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Levine, Michael G., Author.

Series:

Cultural Memory in the Present

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (256 p.) : 29 figures

Place of Publication:

Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press, [2022]

Language Note:

In English.

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:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

1 Introduction

2 Necessary Stains THE BLEEDING OF HISTORY IN SPIEGELMAN'S MAUS I

3 The Vanishing Point SPIEGELMAN'S MAUS II

4 Writing Anxiety CHRISTA WOLF'S 'PATTERNS OF CHILDHOOD' AND THE THROAT OF THE WITNESS

5 Toward an Addressable You OZICK's 'THE SHAWL' AND THE MOUTH OF THE WITNESS

6 Silent Wine CELAN AND THE POETICS OF BELATEDNESS

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 31. Jan 2022)

ISBN:

1-5036-1682-7

OCLC:

1294425664