Nicholas Chare, Dominic Williams

Broschiertes Buch

Matters of Testimony

Interpreting the Scrolls of Auschwitz

Beschreibung

In 1944, a number of Sonderkommando-"special squads" of Jewish prisoners who kept the gas chambers running smoothly-buried on the grounds of Auschwitz a series of remarkable eyewitness accounts. This study reconstructs their history and textual content, revealing literary works that raise troubling questions about the nature of testimony.

Autor

Dominic Williams is a Montague Burton Fellow in Jewish Studies at the University of Leeds. He has published articles on modernism, the First World War, contemporary poetry and the Holocaust. In addition to co-editing Representing Auschwitz, he has co-edited, with Fabio A. Durão, Modernist Group Dynamics: The Politics and Poetics of Friendship.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Seitenzahl: 266
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 402g
• ISBN-13: 9781785333521
• ISBN-10: 1785333526
• Artikelnr.: 45559568