- Summary
- "Rethinking the concepts of "witnessing" and "witness" is highly relevant to the study of war crimes, mass murder and genocide. Through multiple readings, the volume shows the meanings and functions of witnessing in a political and historical context marked by the emergence of multiculturalism. The ultimate goal is the exploration of divergent and intersectional positions of the witness and witnessing as both concrete and hermeneutical categories. As a result, the mechanisms of social, political, and psychological oppression, murder and genocide will become tangible and understandable with greater precision and finesse."
- Series
- The Vidal Sassoon studies in antisemitism, racism, and prejudice ; volume 4
Vidal Sassoon studies in antisemitism, racism, and prejudice ; vol. 4.
- Format
- Book
- Published
- Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Oldenbourg, [2023]
- Contents
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Introduction / Manuela Consonni and Philip Nord
The witness to genocide in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries / Carolyn J. Dean
Primo Levi between the editions / Uri S. Cohen
Inside and outside the courtroom : witnessing the massacres of Chinese in Japanese occupied Malaya, Singapore, and Rabaul / Ran Shauli
Divided memories? The last testimonies on Nazi massacres in Italy / Toni Rovatti
Identification and make-believe : the fallacies of prosthetic memory / Valentina Pisanty
Adolf Eichmann in Jerusalem : defendant and witness in the glass booth? / Fabien Théofilakis
The witness's brew. On imposture and impostor hunting / Joan Ramon Resina
Expanding historical empathy : how the Holocaust is helping Chinese remember atrocities of the Mao era / Vera Schwarcz
Witnesses, silence and mimicry in Elias Khoury's "Children of the Ghetto" / Amos Goldberg
No judges, only witnesses : witnessing genocide in the Vietnam tribunal's courtroom setting of 1966-1967 / Anna Pollmann
Not typical but typifying : Varlam Shalamov's "A Piece of Meat" / Leona Toker
Witnessing as counter-power : testimony and crimes against humanity in the Argentinian province of Jujuy / Martina Weisz
Index.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Consonni, Manuela M., editor.
Nord, Philip G., 1950- editor.
- Notes
-
Includes bibliography and index.
Introduction / Manuela Consonni and Philip Nord -- The witness to genocide in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries / Carolyn J. Dean -- Primo Levi between the editions / Uri S. Cohen -- Inside and outside the courtroom : witnessing the massacres of Chinese in Japanese occupied Malaya, Singapore, and Rabaul / Ran Shauli -- Divided memories? The last testimonies on Nazi massacres in Italy / Toni Rovatti -- Identification and make-believe : the fallacies of prosthetic memory / Valentina Pisanty -- Adolf Eichmann in Jerusalem : defendant and witness in the glass booth? / Fabien Théofilakis -- The witness's brew. On imposture and impostor hunting / Joan Ramon Resina -- Expanding historical empathy : how the Holocaust is helping Chinese remember atrocities of the Mao era / Vera Schwarcz -- Witnesses, silence and mimicry in Elias Khoury's "Children of the Ghetto" / Amos Goldberg -- No judges, only witnesses : witnessing genocide in the Vietnam tribunal's courtroom setting of 1966-1967 / Anna Pollmann -- Not typical but typifying : Varlam Shalamov's "A Piece of Meat" / Leona Toker -- Witnessing as counter-power : testimony and crimes against humanity in the Argentinian province of Jujuy / Martina Weisz -- Index.
