Witness Literature in Byzantium - Narrating Slaves, Prisoners, and Refugees (Paperback, 1st ed. 2021)

This book analyzes Byzantine examples of witness literature, a genre that focuses on eyewitness accounts written by slaves, prisoners, refugees, and other victims of historical atrocity. It focuses on such episodes in three nonfictional texts - John Kaminiates' Capture of Thessaloniki (904), Eustathios of Thessaloniki's Capture of Thessaloniki (1186), and Niketas Choniates' History (ca. 1204-17) - and the three extant twelfth-century Komnenian novels to consider how the authors' positions as both eyewitness and victim require an interpretive method that distinguishes witness literature from other kinds of writing about the past. Drawing on theoretical developments in the fields of Holocaust and Genocide Studies (such as Giorgio Agamben's homo sacer and Michel Foucault's biopolitics) and comparisons with modern examples (Elie Wiesel's Night and Primo Levi's If This is a Man), Witness Literature emphasizes the affective, subjective, and experiential in medieval Greek historical writing.

General

Imprint:	Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Country of origin:	Switzerland
Series:	New Approaches to Byzantine History and Culture
Release date:	August 2022
First published:	2021
Authors:	Adam J Goldwyn
Dimensions:	210 x 148mm (L x W)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	299
Edition:	1st ed. 2021
ISBN-13:	978-3-03-078859-9
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > General Books > Humanities > History > European history > General Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history Books > History > European history > General Books > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history
LSN:	3-03-078859-8
Barcode:	9783030788599

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