Testimony: Crises of Witnessing in Literature, Psychoanalysis and History

ISBN-13: 9780415903929 / Angielski / Miękka / 1991 / 312 str.

Shoshana Felman

Opis

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.

Recenzje

"In a country like the United States, where we make a practice out of startegically erasing memories that lay bare the harsh realities of the ideology that drives our history of violence and domination, and in classrooms where we generally ignore the voices and experiences of students - a great many of whom have witnessed the brutality of the streets, poverty, racism, and discrimination - the lessons of this book are a must." -- Harvard Educational Review, Summer 1995
"In subsequent essays Felman displays her considerable literay prowess. Her analysis of Albert Camus's The Plague and The Fall as Holocaust literature is compelling, so muchso that it drove this reader to reread these works and to read them quite differently." -- Oral History Review
". . . a remarkable book for many reasons. Testimony endows the survivor, the victim and its witness with a sober and forceful way of attesting to the unnamable and invisible presence of its event." -- Psychoanalytic Books

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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.