Witness and Memory : the Discourse of Trauma.
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 rangin...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hoboken :
Taylor and Francis,
2012.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Title; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. The Menchu Effect: Strategic Lies and Approximate Truths in Texts of Witness; 2. Excessive Witnessing: The Ethical as Temptation; 3. Witness in the Wilderness: The Tropical Tryst of Claude Lévi-Strauss and Theodore Roosevelt; 4. An All White Jury: Judging Citizenship in the Simpson Criminal Trial; 5. Poetry, Witness, Feminism; 6. Poetic Witness: Writing the Real; 7. The Burning Babe: Children, Film Narrative, and the Figures of Historical Witness.
- 8. The Limits of Vision: Hiroshima Mon Amour and the Subversion of Representation9. Ex/propriating Survivor Experience, or Auschwitz ""after"" Lyotard; 10. Between History and Memory: The Voice of the Eyewitness; Notes on Contributors; Notes; Works Cited; Index.