%0 Book
%T Representing Auschwitz: at the margins of testimony
%D 2013
%I Palgrave Macmillan
%C Houndmills, Basingstoke [u.a.]
%@ 9781137297686
%G English
%F 757509673
%O ed. by Nicholas Chare and Dominic Williams
%X "The Holocaust is often described as beyond representation. Drawing on interdisciplinary perspectives, this ground-breaking collection of essays by leading international scholars takes the Scrolls of Auschwitz as its starting point. These powerful hand-written testimonies, which were buried in the grounds of the crematoria at Birkenau in 1944, seek to bear witness to mass murder from at its core. The accounts, which are often marginalized in studies of Holocaust testimony, are frequently highly literary and ask significant questions of the notion that Auschwitz cannot be attested to. The volume also includes a number of essays that consider other forms of testimony, in media such as film, literature and video, which have also been marginalized as they fail to conform to dominant ideas about the nature and structure of the event"--
%L 940.53/18
%K Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
%K Historiography
%K Influence
%9 Text
%9 Aufsatzsammlung