| Description |
1 online resource (247 pages). |
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text file |
| Series |
Value Inquiry Book Series, 237 ; v. 237
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Value inquiry book series ; 237.
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| Contents |
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; LIST OF FIGURES; EDITORIAL FOREWORD; GUEST FOREWORD; GUEST FOREWORD: Mapping Out the Mountain; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION; 1. Century of Extremes, Century of Testimony; 2. Women and the Holocaust; 3. Bearing Witness; 4. Witnesses to Pain; 5. Antigones; 6. My Testimony, Too; ONE Charlotte Delbo: The Spectacle of Hurt Memory; 1. Memory's Mise-en-Scène; 2. The Memory of the Body: the Body of Memory; 3. Fleeing from Narrativity; 4. The Testimony of the Other; 5. "The Men" and "Us"; TWO Margarete Buber-Neumann: Witness to the Century. |
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1. Engendering a Witness2. Margarete Buber-Neumann, Exemplary Witness; 3. Milena: the Promise; 4. Grete Thüring, Her Story; 5. Resisting Pain; THREE Ruth Klüger: Embracing Exclusion; 1. A German Writer; 2. In Search of the "Kaddish of the Daughter"; 3. The Holocaust as a Child's Story; 4. "New Nightmares, Old Ghosts": A Forbidden Story?; 5. A Possible Story; FOUR Marguerite Duras: Witness to the Witness; 1. Re-Membering the War; 2. Literary Proofs; 3. Ethics and Memory; 4. Testimony Then and Now: Abolishing Certainties; 5. Stories, Women, and Pain; FIVE Conclusion; WORKS CITED. |
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About the authorindex. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-205) and index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Delbo, Charlotte.
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Delbo, Charlotte. |
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Klüger, Ruth, 1931-2020.
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Klüger, Ruth, 1931-2020. |
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Duras, Marguerite.
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Duras, Marguerite. |
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Buber-Neumann, Margarete, 1901-1989.
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Buber-Neumann, Margarete, 1901-1989. |
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Delbo, Charlotte. |
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Klüger, Ruth, 1931- |
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Duras, Marguerite. |
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Buber-Neumann, Margarete, 1901-1989. |
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature.
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) in literature. |
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Holocaust survivors.
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Holocaust survivors. |
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Women authors -- 20th century.
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Women authors. |
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20th century |
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1900 - 1999 |
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Electronic books.
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Print version: Loew, Camila. Memory of Pain. : Women's Testimonies of the Holocaust. Amsterdam : Editions Rodopi, ©2011 9789042034211 |
| ISBN |
9789401207065 (electronic book) |
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9401207062 (electronic book) |
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9789042034211 (paperback) |
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9042034211 (paperback) |
| Standard No. |
9786613366320 |
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