This deeply persuasive book presents a new and profound approach
to the testimony of the Holocaust. Nicholas Chare offers a critical
reassessment of the writings on the abject by Julia Kristeva,
including her best known, highly influential work "Powers of
Horror," first translated into English in 1982. He re-appraises the
value the concept of abjection holds for the study of the
witnessing and representation of the Holocaust. Chare also provides
fresh interpretations of, for example, the poetic prose of
Charlotte Delbo and the paintings of Francis Bacon, and he explores
the "Scrolls of Auschwitz," discovered buried in the grounds of the
crematoria at Birkenau. These material remains of an event that
have become historical documents composed in the most abject
circumstance are analyzed through their physical state as excavated
objects and testimonial texts extending the complex reading of
writing, imaging and the bodily that is the core of Kristevan
theses on abjection.
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