Bernard-Donals Forgetful Memory

Representation and Remembrance in the Wake of the Holocaust
1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-0-7914-7718-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 212 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Examines the role of forgetfulness in our understanding of the Holocaust.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bernard-Donals, Michael

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Deutsche Geschichte Deutsche Geschichte: Holocaust

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures
Acknowledgment

PART I. MEMORY AND FORGETTING

1. On the Verge of History and Memory

2. Ethics, the Immemorial, and Writing

PART II. WRITING AND THE DISASTER

3. “If I forget thee, O Jerusalem”: The Poetry of Forgetful Memory in Palestine

4. Memory and the Image in Visual Representations of the Holocaust

5. “Thou Shalt Not Bear False Witness”: Witnessand Testimony in the FragmentsControversy

PART III. MEMORY AND THE EVENT

6. Denials of Memory

7. Conflations of Memory; or, What They Saw at the Holocaust Museum after 9/11

8. “Difficult Freedom”: Levinas, Memory, and Politics

9. Conclusion: Forgetful Memory and the Disaster

Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Michael Bernard-Donals is Nancy Hoefs Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. He has written and edited several books, including (with Richard Glejzer) Between Witness and Testimony: The Holocaust and the Limits of Representation, also published by SUNY Press, and An Introduction to Holocaust Studies.