Examines the role of forgetfulness in our understanding of the Holocaust.
Much of the discussion surrounding the Holocaust and how it can be depicted sixty years later has focused on memory. In Forgetful Memory, Michael Bernard-Donals focuses on the relation between memory and forgetfulness, arguing that memory and forgetfulness cannot be separated but must be examined as they complicate our understanding of the Shoah. Drawing on the work of Josef Yerushalmi, Maurice Blanchot, David Roskies, and especially Emmanuel Levinas, Bernard-Donals explores contemporary representations of the Holocaust in memoirs, novels, and poetry; films and photographs; in museums; and in our contemporary political discourse concerning the Middle East. Ultimately, Forgetful Memory makes the case that we should give up on the idea of memory as a kind of representation, and that we should see it instead as an intersection of remembrance and oblivion, as a kind of writing, where what remains at its margins-what is left unwritten-is at least as important as what is given voice.
Tabela de Conteúdo
List of Figures
Acknowledgment
PART I. MEMORY AND FORGETTING
1. On the Verge of History and Memory
2. Ethics, the Immemorial, and Writing
PART II. WRITING AND THE DISASTER
3. ‘If I forget thee, O Jerusalem’: The Poetry of Forgetful Memory in Palestine
4. Memory and the Image in Visual Representations of the Holocaust
5. ‘Thou Shalt Not Bear False Witness’: Witnessand Testimony in the Fragments Controversy
PART III. MEMORY AND THE EVENT
6. Denials of Memory
7. Conflations of Memory; or, What They Saw at the Holocaust Museum after 9/11
8. ‘Difficult Freedom’: Levinas, Memory, and Politics
9. Conclusion: Forgetful Memory and the Disaster
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Sobre o autor
Michael Bernard-Donals is Nancy Hoefs Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. His books include Forgetful Memory: Representation and Remembrance in the Wake of the Holocaust, also published by SUNY Press, and Jewish Rhetorics: History, Theory, Practice (coedited with Janice W. Fernheimer).
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