Celebrating the anniversary of Testimony, this collection joins leading academics from a range of fields to explore the meaning, use, and value of testimony in law and politics, its relationship to other forms of writing, and its place in society. These issues are necessarily inflected by the question of witnessing violence, pain, and suffering at both the local and global level, across cultures, and in postcolonial contexts. It presents an interdisciplinary concern over the current and future nature of witnessing as it plays out through a 'new' Europe, post-9/11 US, war-torn Africa, and in…mehr
Celebrating the anniversary of Testimony, this collection joins leading academics from a range of fields to explore the meaning, use, and value of testimony in law and politics, its relationship to other forms of writing, and its place in society. These issues are necessarily inflected by the question of witnessing violence, pain, and suffering at both the local and global level, across cultures, and in postcolonial contexts. It presents an interdisciplinary concern over the current and future nature of witnessing as it plays out through a 'new' Europe, post-9/11 US, war-torn Africa, and in countless refugee and detention centers, and as it is worked out by lawyers, journalists, medics, and novelists.
Produktdetails
Produktdetails
Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature
Antony Rowland is Professor of Contemporary English Literature in the College of Arts at University of Lincoln, UK. Jane Kilby is Senior Lecturer in English and Cultural Studies at University of Salford, UK.
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction Jane Kilby and Antony RowlandPart I: Witnessing in Psychoanalysis and History 1. History, Memory, Testimony Dan Stone 2. Afer the End: Psychoanalysis in the Ashes of History Cathy Caruth 3. Fire in the Archive: The Alignment of Witnesses Shoshanam Felman 4. The Public Secret Robert Eaglestone 5. Witnessing, Evidence, and Testimony before the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia Kirsten Campbell Part II: Beyond Western Testimony 6. Hannah Arendt's Message of Ill-Tidings: Statelessness, Rights and Speech Lyndsey Stonebridge 7. Professional Witnessing in Rwanda: Human Rights and Creative Responses to Genocide Zoe Norridge 8. Hybrid Testimony Matthew Boswell 9.A Natural History of Testimony? Rick Crownshaw Part III: The Enduring Aesthetic: Literature and Testimony 10. Holocaust Memory and the Critique of Violence in Caryl Churchhill's Seven Jewish Children: A Play for Gaza Stef Craps 11. Living Among the Ruins of Memory and Language: Jorge Semprún and Testimony Ursula Tidd 12. Impossible Histories: Adorno and the Question of Lyric David Miller 13. "The writer begins in the towers": Don DeLillo, 9/11 and the Ethics of Testimony Paula Martin Salván
Introduction Jane Kilby and Antony RowlandPart I: Witnessing in Psychoanalysis and History 1. History, Memory, Testimony Dan Stone 2. Afer the End: Psychoanalysis in the Ashes of History Cathy Caruth 3. Fire in the Archive: The Alignment of Witnesses Shoshanam Felman 4. The Public Secret Robert Eaglestone 5. Witnessing, Evidence, and Testimony before the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia Kirsten Campbell Part II: Beyond Western Testimony 6. Hannah Arendt's Message of Ill-Tidings: Statelessness, Rights and Speech Lyndsey Stonebridge 7. Professional Witnessing in Rwanda: Human Rights and Creative Responses to Genocide Zoe Norridge 8. Hybrid Testimony Matthew Boswell 9.A Natural History of Testimony? Rick Crownshaw Part III: The Enduring Aesthetic: Literature and Testimony 10. Holocaust Memory and the Critique of Violence in Caryl Churchhill's Seven Jewish Children: A Play for Gaza Stef Craps 11. Living Among the Ruins of Memory and Language: Jorge Semprún and Testimony Ursula Tidd 12. Impossible Histories: Adorno and the Question of Lyric David Miller 13. "The writer begins in the towers": Don DeLillo, 9/11 and the Ethics of Testimony Paula Martin Salván
Es gelten unsere Allgemeinen Geschäftsbedingungen: www.buecher.de/agb
Impressum
www.buecher.de ist ein Shop der buecher.de GmbH & Co. KG Bürgermeister-Wegele-Str. 12, 86167 Augsburg Amtsgericht Augsburg HRA 13309
