REPRESENTING AUSCHWITZ by Nicholas Chare (Editor), Dominic Williams (Editor) ( 9781137297693 )

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Title:

REPRESENTING AUSCHWITZ
AT THE MARGINS OF TESTIMONY

By:

Nicholas Chare (Editor), Dominic Williams (Editor)

Format:

Electronic book text

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ISBN 10:

1137297697

ISBN 13:

9781137297693

Publisher:

PALGRAVE MACMILLAN

Pub. date:

20 September, 2013

Series:

The Holocaust and Its Contexts

Description:

This collection of essays by leading international scholars takes the Scrolls of Auschwitz as its starting point. These powerful hand-written testimonies, produced within Birkenau, seek to bear witness to mass murder from at its core. The highly literary accounts pose a fundamental challenge to the idea the Holocaust cannot be attested to.

Synopsis:

The Holocaust is often described as beyond representation. Drawing on interdisciplinary perspectives, this ground-breaking collection of essays by leading international scholars takes the Scrolls of Auschwitz as its starting point. These powerful hand-written testimonies, which were buried in the grounds of the crematoria at Birkenau in 1944, seek to bear witness to mass murder from at its core. The accounts, which are often marginalized in studies of Holocaust testimony, are frequently highly literary and ask significant questions of the notion that Auschwitz cannot be attested to. The volume also includes a number of essays that consider other forms of testimony, in media such as film, literature and video, which have also been marginalized as they fail to conform to dominant ideas about the nature and structure of the event.

Illustrations:

23 black & white halftones

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Imprint:

Palgrave Macmillan

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Non-returnable

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