Shoshana Felman, Dori Laub

Testimony

Crises of Witnessing in Literature, Psychoanalysis and History

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"Testimony" draws on survivors of the Holocaust's accounts to present the first theory of testimony: a radically new conception of the relationship between art and culture and the witnessing of historical events.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Dezember 1991
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 154mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 470g
• ISBN-13: 9780415903929
• ISBN-10: 0415903920
• Artikelnr.: 22010521

Autorenporträt

Shoshana Felman is the Thomas E. Donnelly Professor of French and Comparative Literature at Yale University. Dori Laub is a psychiatrist engaged in the treatment of trauma survivors and is cofounder of the Holocaust Survivors' Film Project and of the Video Archives for Holocaust Testimonies at Yale University.

Inhaltsangabe

1: Education and Crisis, Or the Vicissitudes of Teaching
2: Bearing Witness or the Vicissitudes of Listening
3: An Event Without a Witness: Truth, Testimony and Survival
4: Camus' The Plague, or a Monument to Witnessing
5: After the Apocalypse: Paul de Man and the Fall to Silence
6: The Betrayal of the Witness: Camus' The Fall
7: The Return of the Voice Claude Lanzmann's Shoah