Witnessing witnessing : on the reception of Holocaust survivor testimony / Thomas Trezise.

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New York : Fordham University Press, 2013.

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This study focuses critical attention on those who receive the testimony of Holocaust survivors. Questioning the notion that traumatic experience is intrinsically unspeakable and that the Holocaust thus lies in a quasi-sacred realm beyond history, the book asks whether much current theory does not have the effect of silencing the voices of real historical victims. It thereby challenges widely accepted theoretical views about the representation of trauma in general and the Holocaust in particular.

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May 05, 2016

Includes bibliographical references and index.