The Humanities of Testimony (Poetics Today, Summer 2006)

Poetics Today brings together scholars from throughout the world who are concerned with developing systematic approaches to the study of literature (e.g., semiotics and narratology) and with applying such approaches to the interpretation of literary works. Poetics Today presents a remarkable diversity of methodologies and examines a wide range of literary and critical topics. Several thematic review sections or special issues are published in each volume, and each issue contains a book review section, with article-length review essays.

 

VOLUME 27, NUMBER 2, SUMMER 2006 :

THE HUMANITIES OF TESTIMONY

 

  

Contents :

 

 

Meir Sternberg : Preface and Acknowledgments

 

Geoffrey Hartman : The Humanities of Testimony: An Introduction

 

Aleida Assmann :

History, Memory, and the Genre of Testimony

 

Tony Kushner :

Holocaust Testimony, Ethics, and the Problem of Representation

 

Lawrence L. Langer :

Hearing the Holocaust

 

Robert N. Kraft :

Archival Memory: Representations of the Holocaust in Oral Testimony  

 

Dalia Ofer :

Another Glance through the Historian's Lens: Testimonies in the Study of Health and Medicine in the Ghetto

 

Marianne Hirsch and Leo Spitzer :

Testimonial Objects: Memory, Gender, and Transmission

 

Annette Wieviorka :

The Witness in History

 

Patricia Yaeger :

Testimony without Intimacy  

 

Jan T. Gross :

One Line at a Time

 

Henry Greenspan and Sidney Bolkosky :

When Is an Interview an Interview? Notes from Listening to Holocaust Survivors

 

Joanne Weiner Rudof :

Research Use of Holocaust Testimonies

 

Walter Reich :

Unwelcome Narratives: Listening to Suppressed Themes in American Holocaust Testimonies

 

Ernst van Alphen :

Second-Generation Testimony, Transmission of Trauma, and Postmemory

 

Thane Rosenbaum :

The Audacity of Aesthetics: The Post-Holocaust Novel and the Respect for the Dead