Douglass / Vogler Witness and Memory

The Discourse of Trauma
Erscheinungsjahr 2012
ISBN: 978-1-136-07354-0
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 288 Seiten

This is a collection within the anthropology of violence and witness studies, a discipline inaugurated in the 1980s. It accomplishes a tight focus while tackling seemingly disparate topics: from Rigoberat Menchu to O.J. Simpson, and from feminist poetry to Hiroshima Mon Amour. With approaches ranging from anthropological and historical to literary and philosophical, this collection is engaging in both subject matter and writing style.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Douglass, Ana

Vogler, Thomas A.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements
Introduction
The Essays
The Menchu Effect: Strategic Lies and Approximate Truths in Texts of Witness - Ana Douglass
Excessive Witnessing: The Ethical as Temptation - Joseba Zulaika
Witness in the Wilderness: The Tropical Tryst of Claude Levi-Strauss and Theodor Roosevelt - William A. Douglass
An All White Jury: Judging Citizenship in the Simpson Criminal Trial - Cindy Patton
Poetry, Witness, Feminism - Harret Davidson
Poetic Witness/ Writing the Real - homas A. Vogler
The Limits of Vision: Hiroshima Mon Amour and the Subversion of Representation - Kyo Maclear
The Burning Babe: Children, Film Narrative, and the Figures of Historical Witness - Tyrus Miller
Ex/propriating Survivor Experience, or Auschwitz 'after' Lyotard - Karyn Ball
Between History and Memory: The Voice of the Eyewitness - James Young
Notes on Contributors
Works Cited
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Thomas A. Vogler is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Ana Douglass is Assistant Professor of English at Truckee Meadows College in Reno, Nevada.