LEADER 03187cam a2200397Ia 4500001 93988 005 20240621175436.0 008 040519s2003 xx rb 000 0 eng d 035 (OCoLC)ocm55879640 035 93988 049 LHMA 040 LHM |beng |erda |cLHM 090 PQ2664.E5117 |bS34 2003 100 1 Schweitzer, Petra. 245 10 Art under duress : |btrauma, language and witness in Charlotte Delbo and Paul Celan / |cby Petra Schweitzer. 264 1 [Place of publication not identified] : |b[publisher not identified], |c2003. 300 vii, 132 pages 336 text |btxt |2rdacontent 337 unmediated |bn |2rdamedia 338 volume |bnc |2rdacarrier 502 Thesis (Ph.D.)--Emory University, 2003. 504 Includes bibliographical references (pages 120-132). 520 The aim of my dissertation is to examine the ways in which the Jewish, German-speaking poet Paul Celan and the French writer Charlotte Delbo narrate a catastrophic past. These literary works constitute a testimony to the Holocaust that, I suggest, emerges as a specifically traumatic history. Trauma is understood, in this context, as an event that is not fully experienced when it occurs but returns, repeatedly, in a belated response that compels the victim to encounter that which he or she has not yet fully known. In what ways, I ask in this study, can literature produce form of witness in the face of a memory that may not always be entirely conscious or complete?As victims of the Holocaust themselves, Celan and Delbo describe their experiences of the Nazi extermination camps in a language that can be linked both to individual pasts and to a collective catastrophic history. In two chapters devoted to Delbo and two chapters devoted to Celan, I examine the relation between specific modes of figurative language as it transmits and rearticulates traumatic experience. Through the use of figures-the leg, the deadened self, the silence of language, and the wounded eye-I examine the capacity of language as testimony to articulate what memory continues to resist. In different ways, I argue, the figures that are central to each writer serve to communicate both the challenge of remembering and transmitting the history of the Holocaust and the possibilities for language to change and to create new possibilities for witness in the face of this catastrophic event. 530 Electronic version(s) |bavailable internally at USHMM. 533 Photocopy. |bAnn Arbor, Mich. : |cUMI Dissertation Services, |d2004. |e22 cm. 590 Dissertations and Theses 591 Record updated by Marcive processing 21 June 2024 600 10 Delbo, Charlotte |xCriticism and interpretation. 600 10 Celan, Paul |xCriticism and interpretation. 650 0 Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature. 856 41 |uhttp://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=764890771&sid=10&Fmt=6&clientId=54617&RQT=309&VName=PQD |zElectronic version from ProQuest 956 41 |u http://dc.ushmm.org/library/bib93988/3103817.pdf |z Hosted by USHMM. 994 X0 |bLHM 852 0 |bstacks |hPQ2664.E5117 |iS34 2003 852 |bwww 852 0 |bebook