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On the Defensive - Reading the Ethical in Nazi Camp Testimonies (Hardcover)
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On the Defensive - Reading the Ethical in Nazi Camp Testimonies (Hardcover)
Series: University of Toronto Romance Series
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On the Defensive considers how our ethical responses to the Nazi
camps have unintentionally repressed and denied the experiences of
their victims. Through detailed readings of survivor narratives,
particularly the works of political deportees Jorge Semprun and
Charlotte Delbo, Sharon Marquart examines how well-intentioned
people - including victims, their family members, and readers of
witness literature - respond to such testimony in ways that are
understood as ethical by their communities but serve instead to
ignore victims' experiences. As Marquart shows, collective
disasters such as the Holocaust expose the limitations of our
ethical theories. To cope with this instability we withdraw and
defend ourselves through inattentive and formulaic responses that
turn a blind eye to the plight of victims. Challenging contemporary
theorizations of community, ethics, testimony, and trauma, On the
Defensive is a far-reaching reflection on the ways in which
communal understandings of our duties and responsibilities to
others can facilitate the denial of an atrocity's horrors.
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