[PDF.99nw] Fantasies of Witnessing: Postwar Efforts to Experience the Holocaust

Fantasies of Witnessing: Postwar Efforts to Experience the Holocaust

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 | #2790211 in Books |  Cornell University Press |  2004-06-17 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.04 x.87 x6.32l,1.23 | File type: PDF | 288 pages

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||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| A most interesting and engaging book. And finally, ...|By Louise|A most interesting and engaging book. And finally, somebody put words to the problem I have with Lawrence Langer. Though his work is valuable, Langer's self-congratulatory tone, as well as his insistence that HIS view of the Holocaust is right, and in some cases, more correct than survivors themselves is irritati| |"Seeking to understand why some people attempt to 'experience' the Holocaust viscerally, Weissman argues that we must first understand how we remember it. . . . Weissman argues that recently the trend is to move away from literary or artistic representations a

Fantasies of Witnessing explores how and why those deeply interested in the Holocaust, yet with no direct, familial connection to it, endeavor to experience it vicariously through sites or texts designed to make it "real" for nonwitnesses. Gary Weissman argues that far from overwhelming nonwitnesses with its magnitude of horror, the Holocaust threatens to feel distant and unreal. A prevailing rhetoric of "secondary" memory and trauma, he contends, and efforts to portray ...

You easily download any file type for your device.Fantasies of Witnessing: Postwar Efforts to Experience the Holocaust   |  Gary Weissman. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.

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