There and un-there
Empathy in poetic encounters with Holocaust survivor interviews
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12904232 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Anna Veprinska (University of Toronto, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 29 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 1-22 |
| Publication date | 2022-04-22 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Holocaust Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1750-4902 • E-ISSN: 2048-4887 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/17504902.2022.2028434 |
| OpenAlex | W4224236169 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 16 |
During their interviews with the Visual History Archive, hundreds of Holocaust survivors recite poems. This article examines empathy in poetry written and read by two poet-survivors, Martha Osvat and Jacob Rosenberg, as well as empathy in two poems I write after viewing their interviews. Recognizing the dual potential of empathy to help and harm, both the poems the survivors recite and my response poems variously request and refuse empathy in a process I term empathetic dissonance. This academic-creative paper argues that empathy is suspect in the context of the Holocaust and probes the ethical boundaries of approaching another’s traumatic experiences
Aesthetics · Art · Context (archaeology · Empathy · Harm · Literature · Narrative · Poetry · Psychoanalysis · Sociology · Storytelling · The Holocaust · Theology · Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health · History · Identity, Memory, and Therapy · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology
EmpathyPhilosophical and Psychological Perspectives
Case Study Research in Practice
Prosthetic memory
From The Cultural Politics of Emotion
The Fragility of Empathy after the Holocaust
Introduction
On Listening to Holocaust Survivors
Scenes of Subjection
Regarding the pain of others
Testimony without Intimacy
When Is an Interview an Interview? Notes from Listening to Holocaust Survivors
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |