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Witnessing the disaster: essays on representation and the Holocaust
Michael F. Bernard-Donals and Richard R. Glejzer
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Frontmatter
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Introduction: Representations of the Holocaust and the End of Memory (Michael Bernard-Donals and Richard Glejzer, page 3)
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I The Epistemology of Witness
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1 The Holocaust as Vicarious Past: Art Spiegelman's Maus and the Afterimages of History (James E. Young, page 23)
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2 "The Language of Dollars": Multilingualism and the Claims of English in Hasidic Tales of the Holocaust (Alan Rosen, page 46)
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3 A Pedagogy of Trauma (or a Crisis of Cynicism): Teaching, Writing, and the Holocaust (Janet Alsup, page 75)
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4 The "Erotics of Auschwitz": Coming of Age in The Painted Bird and Sophie's Choice (Sharon Oster, page 90)
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5 Maus and the Epistemology of Witness (Richard Glejzer, page 125)
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II Memory, Authenticity, and the "Jewish Question"
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6 Promiscuous Reading: The Problem of Identification and Anne Frank's Diary (Susan David Berstein, page 141)
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7 Humboldt's Gift and Jewish American Self-Fashioning "After Auschwitz" (Elizabeth Jane Bellamy, page 162)
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8 Mormon Literature and the Irreducible Other: Writing the Unspeakable in Holocaust Literature (Reinhold Hill, page 183)
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9 Beyond the Question of Authenticity: Witness and Testimony in the Fragments Controversy (Michael Bernard-Donals, page 196)
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III The Ethical Imperative
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10 Maurice Blanchot: Fighting Spirit (Geoffrey Hartman, page 221)
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11 Shoah and the Origins of Teaching (David Metzger, page 231)
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12 Teaching (after) Auschwitz: Pedagogy between Redemption and Sublimity (Michael Bernard-Donals and Richard Glejzer, page 245)
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13 Approaching Limit Events: Siting Agamben (Dominick LaCapra, page 262)
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Contributors (page 307)
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Index (page 309)
Journal Abbreviation | Label | URL |
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ALH | 19.1 (2007): 65-85 | http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/american_literary_history/v019/19.1sundquist.html |
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Published: c2003
Publisher: The University of Wisconsin Press
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- 9780299183608 (hardcover)