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

Publication Info. Madison : University of Wisconsin Press, [2003]
©2003

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Description 1 online resource (vi, 317 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction : Representations of the Holocaust and the end of memory / Michael Bernard-Donals and Richard Glejzer -- I. The epistemology of witness -- 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 -- "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 identification 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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Reproduction Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL
System Details Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
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Subject Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature -- Study and teaching.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) in literature.
Judaism and literature -- Study and teaching.
Judaism and literature.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Aufsatzsammlung.
Added Author Bernard-Donals, Michael F.
Glejzer, Richard R.
Other Form: Print version: Witnessing the disaster. Madison : University of Wisconsin Press, ©2003 0299183602 (DLC) 2002010203 (OCoLC)50090063
ISBN 9780299183639 (electronic book)
0299183637 (electronic book)
9780299183608
0299183602
9780299183646 (paperback)
0299183645 (paperback)
0299183602
0299183645 (paperback)