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Gendered Testimonies of the Holocaust - Writing Life (Hardcover)
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Gendered Testimonies of the Holocaust - Writing Life (Hardcover)
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Gendered Testimonies of the Holocaust: Writing Life begins with the
premise that writing proves virtually synonymous with survival,
bearing the traces of life and of death carried within those who
survived the atrocities of the Nazis. In reading specific
testimonies by survivor-writers Paul Celan, Charlotte Delbo, Olga
Lengyel, Gisella Perl, and Dan Pagis, this text seeks to answer the
question: How was it possible for these survivors to write about
human destruction, if death is such an intimate part of the
survivors' survival? This book shows how the works of these
survivors arise creatively from a vigorous spark, the desire to
preserve memory. Testimony for each of these writers is a form of
relation to oneself but also to others. It situates each survivor's
anguish in writing as a need to write so as to affirm life. Writing
as such always bears witness to the life of the one who should be
dead by now and thus to the miracle of having survived. This book's
claim is that the act of writing testimony manifests itself as the
most intensive form of life possible. More specifically, its
exploration of writing's affirmation of life and assertion of
identity focuses on the gendered dimension of expression and
language. This book does not engage in the binary structure of
gender and the hierarchically constructed roles in terms of
privileging the male over the female. The criteria that guide its
discussion on Gendered Testimonies emerge out of Levinas's concept
of maternity.
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