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Witness Literature in Byzantium - Narrating Slaves, Prisoners, and Refugees (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
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Witness Literature in Byzantium - Narrating Slaves, Prisoners, and Refugees (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
Series: New Approaches to Byzantine History and Culture
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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.
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