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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
Otros Autores: Douglass, Ana, 1966-, Vogler, Thomas A., 1937-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Routledge, 2003.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • The Menchu ́effect: strategic lies and approximate truths in texts of witness / Ana Douglas
  • Excessive witnessing: the ethical as temptation / Joseba Zulaika
  • Witness in the wilderness: the tropical tryst of Claude Lévi-Strauss and Theodore Roosevelt / William A. Douglass
  • An all white jury: judging citizenship in the Simpson criminal trial / Cindy Patton
  • Poetry, witness, feminism / Harriet Davidson
  • Poetic witness: writing the real / Thomas A. Vogler
  • The burning babe: children, film narrative, and the figures of historical witness / Tyrus Miller
  • The limits of vision: Hiroshima mon amour and the subversion of representation / Kyo Maclear
  • Ex/propriating survivor experience, or Auschwitz "after" Lyotard / Karyn Ball
  • Between history and memory: the voice of the eywitness / James E. Young.