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An edition of Fantasies of witnessing (2004)

Fantasies of witnessing

postwar efforts to experience the Holocaust

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"Fantasies of Witnessing explores how and why those deeply interested in the Holocaust, yet with no direct, familial connection to it, endeavor to experience its horror vicariously through sites or texts designed to make the event "real" for nonwitnesses. Gary Weissman argues that far from overwhelming nonwitnesses with its magnitude of horror, the Holocaust threatens to feel distant and unreal. A prevailing rhetoric of "secondary" memory and trauma, he contends, and growing efforts to portray the Holocaust as an immediate and personal experience are responses to an encroaching sense of unreality: "In America, we are haunted not by the traumatic impact of the Holocaust, but by its absence. When we take an interest in the Holocaust, we are not overcoming a fearful aversion to its horror, but endeavoring to actually feel the horror of what otherwise eludes us.""--BOOK JACKET.

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Cornell University Press
Language
English
Pages
266

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Subjects

Historiography, Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), Influence, Memory, Social aspects, Social aspects of Memory, Visualization, Holocaust, jewish (1939-1945), psychological aspects

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Fantasies of Witnessing: Postwar Efforts to Experience the Holocaust
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Fantasies of witnessing: postwar efforts to experience the Holocaust
2004, Cornell University Press
in English
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [247]-260) and index.

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Dewey Decimal Class
940.53/18/072
Library of Congress
D804.348 .W45 2004, D804.348.W45 2004

The Physical Object

Pagination
xiii, 266 p. ;
Number of pages
266

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OL3288871M
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fantasiesofwitne00weis
ISBN 10
0801442532
LCCN
2004001490
OCLC/WorldCat
54079510
Library Thing
2370199
Goodreads
3152673

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