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Caught by history : Holocaust effects in contemporary art, literature, and theory / Ernst van Alphen.

Publication | Not Digitized | Library Call Number: NX650.H57 A45 1997

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    Format
    Book
    Author/Creator
    Alphen, Ernst van.
    Published
    Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 1997
    Contents
    Introduction: caught by history: how this book came about
    1. History's other: oppositional thought and its discontents

    Part I.
    2. The seduction of directness
    2. Testimonies and the limits of representation
    3. Autobiography as resistance to history: Charlotte Salomon's 'Life or Theatre?'

    Part II. The Historical Approach to Memory, With a Difference
    4. Deadly historians: Christian Boltanski's intervention in Holocaust historiography
    5. Touching Death: Armando's quest for an indexical language

    Part III. The Imaginative Approach to Memory
    6. The revivifying artist: Christian Boltanski's efforts to close the gap
    7. A master of amazement: Armando's self-chosen exile

    Part IV. Giving Memory a Place
    8. Sublimity in the home: overcoming uncanniness
    Notes
    Includes bibliographical references (p. [225]-233).
    Introduction: caught by history: how this book came about -- 1. History's other: oppositional thought and its discontents -- -- Part I. -- 2. The seduction of directness -- 2. Testimonies and the limits of representation -- 3. Autobiography as resistance to history: Charlotte Salomon's 'Life or Theatre?' -- -- Part II. The Historical Approach to Memory, With a Difference -- 4. Deadly historians: Christian Boltanski's intervention in Holocaust historiography -- 5. Touching Death: Armando's quest for an indexical language -- -- Part III. The Imaginative Approach to Memory -- 6. The revivifying artist: Christian Boltanski's efforts to close the gap -- 7. A master of amazement: Armando's self-chosen exile -- -- Part IV. Giving Memory a Place -- 8. Sublimity in the home: overcoming uncanniness

    Physical Details

    Language
    English
    ISBN
    0804729158
    0804729166 (pbk. : alk. paper)
    Physical Description
    xii, 233 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

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