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The Memory of Pain

Autor Camila Loew
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 2011
In this book, Camila Loew analyzes four women’s testimonial literary writings on the Holocaust to examine and question some of the tenets of the fields of Holocaust studies, gender studies, and testimony. Through a close reading of the works of Charlotte Delbo, Margarete Buber-Neumann, Ruth Klüger, and Marguerite Duras, Loew foregrounds these authors’ search for a written form to engage with their experiences of the extreme. Although each chapter contains its individual focus and features, the book possesses a unity in intention, concerns, and consequences. In the theoretical introduction that unites the four chapters, Loew eschews essentialism and revises the emergence of the field of Women and Holocaust studies from the early 1980s on, and signals some of its shortcomings. In response, and in accordance with a recent turn in various disciplines of the Humanities, Loew highlights the ethical dimension of testimony and its responsible commitment to the other. In dealing with the texts as literary testimonies—a complex genre, between literature and history—, testimony is freed from the obligation to respond to the requirements of factual truth, and becomes a privileged form to voice the traumatic event, and to symbolically explore the role of excess.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9789042034211
ISBN-10: 9042034211
Pagini: 256
Dimensiuni: 155 x 234 x 14 mm
Greutate: 0.36 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: de Gruyter Brill

Recenzii

”Recommended” in: CHOICE - Current Reviews for Academic Libraries, Vol. 49, No. 9, May 2012

Cuprins

List of Figures
James R. Watson: Editorial Foreword
Angel G. Loureiro: Guest Foreword
Michael Pfeiffer: Guest Foreword: Mapping Out the Mountain
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Charlotte Delbo: The Spectacle of Hurt Memory
Margarete Buber-Neumann: Witness to the Century
Ruth Klüger: Embracing Exclusion
Marguerite Duras: Witness to the Witness
Conclusion
Works Cited
About the Author
Index