Donnelly professorship of french and comparative literature. Dori laub, trauma, and a holocaust without witnesses. In the past 20 years, witnessing has achieved broad. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read testimony. In 1992, in collaboration with literary scholar shoshana felman, laub wrote and published testimony. The discussion centres on a reading of the moment yehiel dinoor, a writer also known as kzetnik and one of the few eyewitnesses at the. By bearing witness through and to the entanglement of history and ecology in her depiction of place in beloved. Since 2001, he is also deputy director for trauma studies. Laub when her 1984 seminar on literature and testimony went into crisis. Chapter one is a thorough and critical discussion of dori laubs famous essay bearing witness, or the vicissitudes of listening, which was originally published as chapter two of the influential 1992 work that laub coauthored with shoshana felman, testimony.
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