The Belated Witness: Literature, Testimony, and the Question of Holocaust Survival

by Michael G. Levine

Book Overview

The Belated Witness stakes out an original place within the field of recent work on the theory and practice of literary writing after the Holocaust. Drawing in productive and unsettling ways from converging work in history, philosophy, psychoanalysis, and literature, the book asks how the events of the Holocaust force us to alter traditional conceptions about human experience, as well as the way we can now talk and write about such experiences...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804755558
• ISBN13: 9780804755559
• Release Date: August 2006
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.1"