Witness and Memory The Discourse of Trauma

Name: Witness and Memory The Discourse of Trauma
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ISBN: 9780415944540

ISBN-10: 0415944546

ISBN-13: 9780415944540

Edition: 2003

Authors: Ana Douglass, Thomas A. Vogler

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This collection deals with the anthropology of violence & witness studies, covering topics ranging from Rigoberat Menchu to O.J. Simpson, & from feminist poetry to Hiroshima Mon Amour. Approaches range from the anthropological & historical to the literary & philosophical.

Book details

List price: $170.00
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 4/18/2003
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 288
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.716
Language: English



Preface


Acknowledgments


Introduction



The Menchu Effect: Strategic Lies and Approximate Truths in Texts of Witness




Excessive Witnessing: The Ethical as Temptation




Witness in the Wilderness: The Tropical Tryst of Claude Levi-Strauss and Theodore Roosevelt




An All White Jury: Judging Citizenship in the Simpson Criminal Trial




Poetry, Witness, Feminism




Poetic Witness: Writing the Real




The Burning Babe: Children, Film Narrative, and the Figures of Historical Witness




The Limits of Vision: Hiroshima Mon Amour and the Subversion of Representation




Ex/propriating Survivor Experience, or Auschwitz "after" Lyotard




Between History and Memory: The Voice of the Eyewitness



Notes on Contributors


Notes


Works Cited


Index