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Death, wrote Walter Benjamin, lends storytellers all their authority. How do trials, in turn, borrow their authority from death? This book offers a groundbreaking account of the surprising interaction between trauma and justice.

Moving from texts by Arendt, Benjamin, Freud, Zola, and Tolstoy to the Dreyfus and Nuremberg trials, as well as the trials of O. J. Simpson and Adolf Eichmann, Shoshana Felman argues that the adjudication of collective traumas in the twentieth century transformed both culture and law. This transformation took place through legal cases that put history itself...

'What does a woman want?'--the question Freud famously formulated in a letter to Marie Bonaparte--is a quintessentially male question that arises from women's resistance to their place in a patriarchal society. But what might it mean, asks Shoshana Felman, for a woman to reclaim this question as her own? Can this question engender, through the literary or the psychoanalytic work, a woman's voice as its speaking subject? Felman explores these questions through close readings of autobiographical texts by Virginia Woolf, Simone de Beauvoir, and Adrienne Rich which attempt to redefine women as...

Jacques Lacan, one of the most influential and controversial French thinkers of the twentieth century, was a practicing and teaching psychoanalyst in Paris, but his revolutionary seminars on Freud reached out far beyond professional circles: they were enthusiastically attended by writers, artists, scientists, philosophers, and intellectuals from many disciplines.

Shoshana Felman elucidates the power and originality of Lacan's work. She brilliantly analyzes Lacan's investigation of psychoanalysis not as dogma but as an ongoing self-critical process of discovery. By focusing on Lacan's...

Mitzvah was an unwanted dog. Her first owners threw her away. Life was

pretty hard until a very nice lady adopted her. Then Mitzvah had a new

challenge: she went blind. But she proved she is a very special dog who

triumphs over her problems. Now she loves her life and wants to share her Fotografo, Barbara A. Pochily joy with you. Enjoy! 

Mitzvah, was an unwanted dog.  Her first owners threw her away.  Life was pretty hard until a very nice lady adopted her.  ThenMitzvah had a new challenge: she went blind.  But she proved she is a very special dog who triumphs over her problems.  Now she loves her life and wants to share her joy with you.   Enjoy.  

Featuring the work of more than 28 writers from upwards of 20 countries, this collection transports us to the frontiers of twenty-first centuryliterature.

In these pages, some of the most accomplished writers in world literature among them Edwidge Danticat, Ha Jin, Cynthia Ozick, Javier Marias, and Nobel laureates Wole Soyinka, Gunter Grass, Czeslaw Milosz, Wislawa Szymborska, and Naguib Mahfouz have stepped forward to introduce us to dazzling literary talents virtually unknown to readers of English. Most of their work short stories, poems, essays, and excerpts from...