The Memory of Pain. : Women's Testimonies of the Holocaust.

By:

Loew, Camila

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Value Inquiry Book Series, 237Publication details: Amsterdam : Editions Rodopi, 2011.Description: 1 online resource (247 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9789401207065
9401207062
9789042034211
9042034211
1283366320
9781283366328
9786613366320
6613366323

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Memory of Pain. : Women's Testimonies of the Holocaust.DDC classification:

940.5318

LOC classification:

D804.195 .L64 2011eb

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Contents:

Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; LIST OF FIGURES; EDITORIAL FOREWORD; GUEST FOREWORD; GUEST FOREWORD: Mapping Out the Mountain; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION; 1. Century of Extremes, Century of Testimony; 2. Women and the Holocaust; 3. Bearing Witness; 4. Witnesses to Pain; 5. Antigones; 6. My Testimony, Too; ONE Charlotte Delbo: The Spectacle of Hurt Memory; 1. Memory's Mise-en-Scène; 2. The Memory of the Body: the Body of Memory; 3. Fleeing from Narrativity; 4. The Testimony of the Other; 5. "The Men" and "Us"; TWO Margarete Buber-Neumann: Witness to the Century.

1. Engendering a Witness2. Margarete Buber-Neumann, Exemplary Witness; 3. Milena: the Promise; 4. Grete Thüring, Her Story; 5. Resisting Pain; THREE Ruth Klüger: Embracing Exclusion; 1. A German Writer; 2. In Search of the "Kaddish of the Daughter"; 3. The Holocaust as a Child's Story; 4. "New Nightmares, Old Ghosts": A Forbidden Story?; 5. A Possible Story; FOUR Marguerite Duras: Witness to the Witness; 1. Re-Membering the War; 2. Literary Proofs; 3. Ethics and Memory; 4. Testimony Then and Now: Abolishing Certainties; 5. Stories, Women, and Pain; FIVE Conclusion; WORKS CITED.

Summary: In this book, Camila Loew analyzes four women's testimonial literary writings on the Holocaust to examine and question some of the tenets of the fields of Holocaust studies, gender studies, and testimony. Through a close reading of the works of Charlotte Delbo, Margarete Buber-Neumann, Ruth Klüger, and Marguerite Duras, Loew foregrounds these authors' search for a written form to engage with their experiences of the extreme. Although each chapter contains its individual focus and features, the book possesses a unity in intention, concerns, and consequences. In the theoretical introduction that.

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In this book, Camila Loew analyzes four women's testimonial literary writings on the Holocaust to examine and question some of the tenets of the fields of Holocaust studies, gender studies, and testimony. Through a close reading of the works of Charlotte Delbo, Margarete Buber-Neumann, Ruth Klüger, and Marguerite Duras, Loew foregrounds these authors' search for a written form to engage with their experiences of the extreme. Although each chapter contains its individual focus and features, the book possesses a unity in intention, concerns, and consequences. In the theoretical introduction that.