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After Testimony: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Holocaust Narrative for the Future
Contributor(s): Lothe, Jakob (Editor), Suleiman, Susan Rubin (Editor), Phelan, James (Editor)
ISBN: 081425182X     ISBN-13: 9780814251829
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
OUR PRICE:   $37.00  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: February 2012
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- Literary Criticism | European - German
Dewey: 809.933
LCCN: 2011038976
Series: Theory Interpretation Narrativ
Physical Information: 1" H x 6.1" W x 9" (1.30 lbs) 408 pages
 
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"After Testimony: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Holocaust Narrative for the Future "collects sixteen essays written with the awareness that we are on the verge of a historical shift in our relation to the Third Reich s programmatic genocide. Soon there will be no living survivors of the Holocaust, and therefore people not directly connected to the event must assume the full responsibility for representing it. The contributors believe that this shift has broad consequences for narratives of the Holocaust. By virtue of being after the accounts of survivors, storytellers must find their own ways of coming to terms with the historical reality that those testimonies have tried to communicate. The ethical and aesthetic dimensions of these stories will be especially crucial to their effectiveness. Guided by these principles and employing the tools of contemporary narrative theory, the contributors analyze a wide range of Holocaust narratives fictional and nonfictional, literary and filmic for the dual purpose of offering fresh insights and identifying issues and strategies likely to be significant in the future. In addition to the editors, the contributors are Daphna Erdinast-Vulcan, Sidra DeKoven Ezrahi, Anniken Greve, Jeremy Hawthorn, Marianne Hirsch, Irene Kacandes, Phillipe Mesnard, J.Hillis Miller, Michael Rothberg, Beatrice Sandberg, Anette H. Storeide, Anne Thelle, and Janet Walker."