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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Douglass, Ana
Otros Autores: Vogler, Thomas A.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: 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.