Witnessing the disaster : essays on representation and the Holocaust / edited by Michael Bernard-Donals and Richard Glejzer.

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Bernard-Donals, Michael F., Glejzer, Richard R.
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Madison : University of Wisconsin Press, c2003.
Subjects:	Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature > Study and teaching.

Table of Contents:

Introduction : Representations of the Holocaust and the end of memory / Michael Bernard-Donals and Richard Glejzer
I. The epistemology of witness
The Holocaust as vicarious past : Art Spiegelman's Maus and the afterimages of history / James E. Young
"The language of dollars" : Multilingualism and the claims of English in Hasidic tales of the Holocaust / Alan Rosen
A pedagogy of trauma (or a crisis of cynicism) : Teaching, writing, and the Holocaust / Janet Alsup
The "erotics of Auschwitz" : Coming of age in The painted bird and Sophie's choice / Sharon Oster
Maus and the epistemology of witness / Richard Glejzer
II. Memory, authenticity, and the "Jewish question"
Promiscuous reading : The problem of indentification and Anne Frank's Diary / Susan David Bernstein
Humboldt's gift and Jewish American self-fashioning "after Auschwitz" / Elizabeth Jane Bellamy
Mormon literature and the irreducible other : Writing the unspeakable in Holocaust literature / Reinhold Hill
Beyond the question of authenticity : Witness and testimony in the Fragments controversy / Michael Bernard-Donals
III. Ethical imperative
Maurice Blanchot : Fighting spirit / Geoffrey Hartman
Shoah and the origins of teaching / David Metzger
Teaching (after) Auschwitz : Pedagogy between redemption and sublimity / Michael Bernard-Donls and Richard Glejzer
Approaching limit events : siting Agamben / Dominick LaCapra.

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