Physical Description
viii, 375 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents
The Menchu ́effect: strategic lies and approximate truths in texts of witness / Ana Douglas
Excessive witnessing: the ethical as temptation / Joseba Zulaika
Witness in the wilderness: the tropical tryst of Claude Lévi-Strauss and Theodore Roosevelt / William A. Douglass
An all white jury: judging citizenship in the Simpson criminal trial / Cindy Patton
Poetry, witness, feminism / Harriet Davidson
Poetic witness: writing the real / Thomas A. Vogler
The burning babe: children, film narrative, and the figures of historical witness / Tyrus Miller
The limits of vision: Hiroshima mon amour and the subversion of representation / Kyo Maclear
Ex/propriating survivor experience, or Auschwitz "after" Lyotard / Karyn Ball
Between history and memory: the voice of the eywitness / James E. Young.
Other Authors/Editors
Douglass, Ana, 1966-
Vogler, Thomas A.
ISBN
0415944546
0415944554 (pbk.)
Notes
Includes bibliographical references (p. [331]-360) and index.
The Menchu ́effect: strategic lies and approximate truths in texts of witness / Ana Douglas -- Excessive witnessing: the ethical as temptation / Joseba Zulaika -- Witness in the wilderness: the tropical tryst of Claude Lévi-Strauss and Theodore Roosevelt / William A. Douglass -- An all white jury: judging citizenship in the Simpson criminal trial / Cindy Patton -- Poetry, witness, feminism / Harriet Davidson -- Poetic witness: writing the real / Thomas A. Vogler -- The burning babe: children, film narrative, and the figures of historical witness / Tyrus Miller -- The limits of vision: Hiroshima mon amour and the subversion of representation / Kyo Maclear -- Ex/propriating survivor experience, or Auschwitz "after" Lyotard / Karyn Ball -- Between history and memory: the voice of the eywitness / James E. Young.
Additional Form
Electronic version(s) available internally at USHMM.
