Writing the Holocaust: Identity, Testimony, Representation

by Zoï Vania Waxman

Overview

Waxman examines the full history of Holocaust testimony, from the very first chroniclers confined to Nazi-enforced ghettos, to today's survivors writing as part of collective memory. Showing how dramatically the conditions and motivations for bearing witness have changed, she reveals the multiplicity of Holocaust experience and how different contexts have given rise to very different modes of remembering.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780199206384
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	01/18/2007
Series:	Oxford Historical Monographs
Pages:	240
Product dimensions:	8.50(w) x 5.30(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Zoë Waxman gained a D.Phil. from Oxford University in 2001. She is a Fellow in Holocaust Studies, a member of the Department of History at Royal Holloway, University of London, and the author of a number of articles on the Holocaust.

Table of Contents

Introduction1. Writing as Resistance? - Bearing Witness in the Warsaw Ghetto2. Writing to Survive: The Testimony of the Concentration Camps3. Writing to Remember: The Role of the Survivor4. Writing Ignored: Reading Women's Holocaust Testimonies5. Writing the Holocaust: The Representation of TestimonyEpilogue

Editorial Reviews

"A valuable contribution, particularly in its call to complicate the hegemonic narrative of survival that has excluded the experiences of so many.—Monika J. Flaschka, Journal of Jewish Identities

"Waxman's book includes many fascinating and significant aspects that remind us of the need to look again at what the survivors, and indeed those who did not survive, are saying in their testimonies."—Joanne Sayner, H-Net

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