Witnessing the disaster : essays on representation and the Holocaust / edited by Michael Bernard-Donals and Richard Glejzer.

Madison : University of Wisconsin Press, [2003], ©2003.

vi, 317 pages ; 24 cm

Introduction : Representations of the Holocaust and the end of memory / Michael Bernard-Donals and Richard Glejzer -- I. The epistemology of witness -- The Holocaust as vicarious past : Art Spiegelman's Maus and the afterimages of history / James E. Young -- "The language of dollars" : Multilingualism and the claims of English in Hasidic tales of the Holocaust / Alan Rosen -- A pedagogy of trauma (or a crisis of cynicism) : Teaching, writing, and the Holocaust / Janet Alsup -- The "erotics of Auschwitz" : Coming of age in The painted bird and Sophie's choice / Sharon Oster -- Maus and the epistemology of witness / Richard Glejzer -- II. Memory, authenticity, and the "Jewish question" -- Promiscuous reading : The problem of indentification and Anne Frank's Diary / Susan David Bernstein -- Humboldt's gift and Jewish American self-fashioning "after Auschwitz" / Elizabeth Jane Bellamy -- Mormon literature and the irreducible other : Writing the unspeakable in Holocaust literature / Reinhold Hill -- Beyond the question of authenticity : Witness and testimony in the Fragments controversy / Michael Bernard-Donals -- III. Ethical imperative -- Maurice Blanchot : Fighting spirit / Geoffrey Hartman -- Shoah and the origins of teaching / David Metzger -- Teaching (after) Auschwitz : Pedagogy between redemption and sublimity / Michael Bernard-Donls and Richard Glejzer -- Approaching limit events : siting Agamben / Dominick LaCapra.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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