Holocaust Testimony, Ethics, and the Problem of Representation

Dados Bibliográficos

ID4375974
AutoresTony Kushner (0009-0003-4960-6273, autor correspondente)
Ano2006
Volume27
Fascículo2
Páginas275-295
Data de publicação2006-06-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoPoetics Today (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0333-5372 • E-ISSN: 1527-5507
EditoraDuke University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1215/03335372-2005-004
OpenAlexW1984581114
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas27
Referências 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