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024 7 _a10.3138/9781442624337
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035 _a(DE-B1597)9781442624337
035 _a(DE-B1597)497151
035 _a(OCoLC)1046613823
040 _aDE-B1597
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082 0 4 _a809/.93358405317
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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aMarquart, Sharon
_eautore
245 1 0 _aOn the Defensive :
_bReading the Ethical in Nazi Camp Testimonies /
_cSharon Marquart.
264 1 _aToronto :
_bUniversity of Toronto Press,
_c[2015]
264 4 _c©2015
300 _a1 online resource (232 p.) :
_b3 b&w illustrations
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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347 _atext file
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490 0 _aUniversity of Toronto Romance Series
505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tContents --
_tAcknowledgments --
_tAbbreviations --
_tIntroduction: On the Defensive: Reading the Ethical in Witness Literature --
_t1. Literature, Theory, and Fraternity --
_t2. Speaking for Others --
_t3. Seeing Responsibility --
_t4. Irony and Community --
_tConclusion: This Has Been for These People --
_tNotes --
_tWorks Cited --
_tIndex
506 0 _arestricted access
_uhttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
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520 _aOn 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.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 01. Dez 2023)
650 7 _aHISTORY / Holocaust.
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850 _aIT-RoAPU
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.3138/9781442624337
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781442624337
856 4 2 _3Cover
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