Witness and Memory The Discourse of Trauma

Name: Witness and Memory The Discourse of Trauma
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ISBN: 9780415944557

ISBN-10: 0415944554

ISBN-13: 9780415944557

Edition: 2003

Authors: Ana Douglass, Thomas A. Vogler

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In an era of atrocities, and in a world of increasingly marked by traumatic shocks to human bodies and minds, we are challenged to understand the nature of violence and its effects. One response to this demand has emerged in the form of witness discourse. This collection challenges the assumed accuracy of various "discourses of trauma." The essays uncover a number of paradoxes and problems related to the act of witnessing, including questions of individual versus collective voice, the intersection of history and memory, unmediated truth and literary form, and the commercialism and fraud that have plagued efforts to "remember" atrocities. This is a landmark collection within the anthropology…

Book details

List price: $59.95
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 4/18/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.75" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.342
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