LEADER 02884cam a2200421Ia 4500001 65439 005 20240621152210.0 008 010919s2000 xx rb 000 0 eng d 035 (OCoLC)ocm47991907 035 65439 049 LHMA 040 LHM |beng |erda |cLHM 090 PN56.H55 |bM35 2000 100 1 Mandel, Naomi, |d1969- 245 10 Speaking the unspeakable : |bidentity after the Holocaust / |cby Naomi Mandel. 264 1 [Place of publication not identified] : |b[publisher not identified], |c2000. 300 viii, 282 pages 336 text |btxt |2rdacontent 337 unmediated |bn |2rdamedia 338 volume |bnc |2rdacarrier 502 Thesis (Ph. D., English)--University of California, Irvine, 2000. 504 Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-282). 520 After the Holocaust, debates about the ethics and aesthetics of representing atrocity, horror and pain have gone through several phases, and a rhetoric of the unspeakable, most prominently in the form of an emphasis on trauma and the differend, has profoundly marked contemporary critical theory and its engagement with cultural difference and articulations of identity. But what is determined to be unspeakable, and what negotiations and compromises inform this determination? Examining literary and cinematic representations of identity in contemporary US literature and culture, specifically identities that define themselves in terms of a history of unspeakable suffering, I ask this question: what does a rhetoric of the unspeakable enable writers, speakers or critics to do? My explorations of this question address the disturbing complicity of a rhetoric of the unspeakable with political power and cultural hegemony. I focus on the assumptions and agendas that are at play in the construction of a history, an aesthetics and an ethos that is based on the unquestioned (because unquestionable) power inherent in the cultural construct of the unspeakable. 530 Electronic version(s) |bavailable internally at USHMM. 533 Photocopy. |bAnn Arbor, Mich. : |cUMI Dissertation Services, |d2001. |e22 cm. 590 Dissertations and Theses 591 Record updated by Marcive processing 21 June 2024 650 0 American literature |y20th century |xHistory and criticism. 650 0 Motion pictures, American. 650 0 Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature. 650 0 Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in motion pictures. 650 0 Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) |xInfluence. 856 41 |uhttp://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=732235391&sid=5&Fmt=6&clientId=54617&RQT=309&VName=PQD |zElectronic version from ProQuest 956 41 |u http://dc.ushmm.org/library/bib65439/9974155.pdf |z Hosted by USHMM. 994 E0 |bLHM 852 0 |bstacks |hPN56.H55 |iM35 2000 852 |bwww 852 |bebook