Witnessing as counter-power : testimony and crimes against humanity in the Argentinian province of Jujuy / Martina Weisz -- The witness to genocide in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries / Carolyn J. Dean -- Primo Levi between the editions / Uri S. Cohen -- Inside and outside the courtroom : witnessing the massacres of Chinese in Japanese occupied Malaya, Singapore, and Rabaul / Ran Shauli -- Divided memories? The last testimonies on Nazi massacres in Italy / Toni Rovatti -- Identification and make-believe : the fallacies of prosthetic memory / Valentina Pisanty -- Adolf Eichmann in Jerusalem : defendant and witness in the glass booth? / Fabien Theofilakis -- The witness's brew. On imposture and impostor hunting / Joan Ramon Resina -- Expanding historical empathy : how the Holocaust is helping Chinese remember atrocities of the Mao era / Vera Schwarcz -- Witnesses, silence and mimicry in Elias Khoury's "Children of the Ghetto" / Amos Goldberg -- No judges, only witnesses : witnessing genocide in the Vietnam tribunal's courtroom setting of 1966-1967 / Anna Pollmann -- Not typical but typifying : Varlam Shalamov's "A Piece of Meat" / Leona Toker -- Witnessing as counter-power : testimony and crimes against humanity in the Argentinian province of Jujuy / Martina Weisz -- Index.
Summary:
"Rethinking the concepts of "witnessing" and "witness" is highly relevant to the study of war crimes, mass murder and genocide. Through multiple readings, the volume shows the meanings and functions of witnessing in a political and historical context marked by the emergence of multiculturalism. The ultimate goal is the exploration of divergent and intersectional positions of the witness and witnessing as both concrete and hermeneutical categories. As a result, the mechanisms of social, political, and psychological oppression, murder and genocide will become tangible and understandable with greater precision and finesse."
Series:
The Vidal Sassoon studies in antisemitism, racism, and prejudice ; volume 4
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