| The Belated Witness: Literature, Testimony, and the Question of Holocaust Survival Contributor(s): Levine, Michael G. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0804755558 ISBN-13: 9780804755559 Publisher: Stanford University Press OUR PRICE: $26.60 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2006 Annotation: " The Belated Witness is a remarkable book and a stunning accomplishment. This beautiful, finely wrought, and impeccably argued text makes a vital and refreshing contribution to existing scholarship in a number of fields: Holocaust literary studies, contemporary German literature, psychoanalytic literary criticism, and literary theory, more generally. Timely, profound, thoughtful, and ambitious in scope, it could very well become an instant classic of literary criticism." -- Elissa Marder, Emory University " The book's importance lies not only in its insights into particular texts, but in its redefinition of testimony and our responses to it. This is an outstanding work." -- Marianne Hirsch, Columbia University |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Semiotics & Theory - Literary Criticism | Jewish - History | Holocaust |
| Dewey: 809.933 |
| LCCN: 2006011302 |
| Series: Cultural Memory in the Present |
| Physical Information: 0.56" H x 6.08" W x 9.06" (0.80 lbs) 256 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - Jewish - Topical - Holocaust |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The Belated Witness examines major works by Art Spiegelman, Cynthia Ozick, Christa Wolf, and Paul Celan, focusing specifically on the unsettling configuration of birth-as-death trauma around which these texts are organized. |