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Disappearing traces : Holocaust testimonials, ethics, and aesthetics /

In this book, the author examines the tensions between the ethical and aesthetic imperatives in literary, artistic, and philosophical works about the Holocaust, in a search for new ways to understand the traumatic past and its impact on the present. She engages with the work of leading 20th-century...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Glowacka, Dorota, 1960- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2012]
Colección:Stephen S. Weinstein series in post-Holocaust studies.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Introduction : disappearing traces : Holocaust testimonials between ethics and aesthetics
  • "Like an echo without a source" : subjectivity as witnessing and the Holocaust narrative
  • The tower of Babel : Holocaust testimonials and the ethics of translation
  • Lending an ear to the silence phrase : Holocaust writing of the Differend
  • Poethics of disappearing traces : Levinas, literary testimony, and Holocaust art
  • Witnesses against themselves : encounters with daughters of absence
  • Epilogue : "To write another book about the Holocaust...".