Holocaust Testimony, Ethics, and the Problem of Representation

Datos Bibliográficos

ID4375974
AutoresTony Kushner (0009-0003-4960-6273, autor de correspondencia)
Año2006
Volumen27
Número2
Páginas275-295
Fecha de publicación2006-06-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaPoetics Today (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0333-5372 • E-ISSN: 1527-5507
EditorialDuke University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1215/03335372-2005-004
OpenAlexW1984581114
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas27
Referencias citadas7

It has taken many decades after 1945 for the testimony of Holocaust victims to be taken seriously. This article charts the shift from the marginalization of survivors and the lack of interest in their accounts immediately after the war to more recent developments, whereby they have gained belated recognition and huge efforts have been made to record their experiences. Faced now with the largest collection of testimony ever gathered about one specific event in history, historians and others representing the past are faced with the dilemma of what to do with this remarkable archive of material. It is suggested that only by understanding the nature of ordinary people's constructions of their life histories, with their internal silences and mythologies, will scholars do full justice to the complexity and richness of Holocaust testimony

Criminology · Dilemma · Economic Justice · Epistemology · Mythology · Political science · Politics · Sociology · The Holocaust · Classics · History · Law · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration · Oral History, Memory, Narrative Analysis · Philosophy