Reading Auschwitz
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Bibliographic Information
Reading Auschwitz
(Ethnographic alternatives book series, v. 5)
AltaMira Press, c1998
- : pbk
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Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 161-178) and index
"About the author": p. 184
Contents of Works
- Borrowed memories and grand narratives
- Different horrors
- Situated voices
- Chaos
- Reflections
- Appendix : book-length published memoirs of Auschwitz available in English
Description and Table of Contents
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ISBN 9780761991861
Description
'My mind refuses to play its part in the scholarly exercise. I walk around in a daze, remembering occasionally to take a picture. I've heard that many people cry here, but I am too numb to feel. The wind whips through my wool coat. I am very cold, and I imagine what the wind would have felt like for someone here fifty years ago without coat, boots, or gloves. Hours later as I write, I tell myself a story about the day, hoping it is true, and hoping it will make sense of what I did and did not feel.' _From the Foreword Most of us learn of Auschwitz and the Holocaust through the writings of Anne Frank and Elie Wiesel. Remarkable as their stories are, they leave many voices of Auschwitz unheard. Mary Lagerwey seeks to complicate our memory of Auschwitz by reading less canonical survivors: Jean Amery, Charlotte Delbo, Fania Fenelon, Szymon Laks, Primo Levi, and Sara Nomberg-Przytyk. She reads for how gender, social class, and ethnicity color their tellings. She asks whether we can_whether we should_make sense of Auschwitz. And throughout, Lagerwey reveals her own role in her research; tells of her own fears and anxieties presenting what she, a non-Jew born after the fall of Nazism, can only know second-hand. For any student of the Holocaust, for anyone trying to make sense of the final solution, Reading Auschwitz represents a powerful struggle with what it means to read and tell stories after Auschwitz.
Table of Contents
chapter 1 Foreword chapter 2 Chapter 1: Introductions chapter 3 Chapter 2: Borrowed Memories and Grand Narratives chapter 4 Chapter 3: Different Horrors chapter 5 Chapter 4: Situated Voices: A Second Reading chapter 6 Chapter 5: Chaos chapter 7 Chapter 6: Reflections
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: pbk ISBN 9780761991878
Description
"My mind refuses to play its part in the scholarly exercise. I walk around in a daze, remembering occasionally to take a picture. I've heard that many people cry here, but I am too numb to feel. The wind whips through my wool coat. I am very cold, and I imagine what the wind would have felt like for someone here fifty years ago without coat, boots, or gloves. Hours later as I write, I tell myself a story about the day, hoping it is true, and hoping it will make sense of what I did and did not feel." -From the Foreword Most of us learn of Auschwitz and the Holocaust through the writings of Anne Frank and Elie Wiesel. Remarkable as their stories are, they leave many voices of Auschwitz unheard. Mary Lagerwey seeks to complicate our memory of Auschwitz by reading less canonical survivors: Jean Amery, Charlotte Delbo, Fania Fenelon, Szymon Laks, Primo Levi, and Sara Nomberg-Przytyk. She reads for how gender, social class, and ethnicity color their tellings. She asks whether we can-whether we should-make sense of Auschwitz. And throughout, Lagerwey reveals her own role in her research; tells of her own fears and anxieties presenting what she, a non-Jew born after the fall of Nazism, can only know second-hand. For any student of the Holocaust, for anyone trying to make sense of the final solution, Reading Auschwitz represents a powerful struggle with what it means to read and tell stories after Auschwitz.
Table of Contents
chapter 1 Foreword chapter 2 Chapter 1: Introductions chapter 3 Chapter 2: Borrowed Memories and Grand Narratives chapter 4 Chapter 3: Different Horrors chapter 5 Chapter 4: Situated Voices: A Second Reading chapter 6 Chapter 5: Chaos chapter 7 Chapter 6: Reflections
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