{"product_id":"no-ones-witness-9781478014249","title":"No Ones Witness","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eNo One''s Witness\u003c\/i\u003e Syd Zolf activates the last three lines of a poem by Jewish Nazi holocaust survivor Paul Celan—“No one \/ bears witness for the \/ witness”—to theorize the poetics and im\/possibility of witnessing. Drawing on black studies, continental philosophy, queer theory, experimental poetics, and work by several writers and artists, Zolf asks what it means to witness from the excessive, incalculable position of No One. In a fragmentary and recursive style that enacts the monstrous speech it pursues, \u003ci\u003eNo One''s Witness \u003c\/i\u003edemonstrates the necessity of confronting the Nazi holocaust in relation to transatlantic slavery and its afterlives. Thinking along with black feminist theory''s notions of entangled swarm, field, plenum, chorus, \u003ci\u003eNo One''s Witness \u003c\/i\u003einterrogates the limits and thresholds of witnessing, its dangerous perhaps. No One operates outside the bounds of the sovereign individual, hauntologically informed by the fleshly no-thingne\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Drawing on a powerful critical network of ideas and a refreshing juxtaposition of theorists, Syd Zolf rethinks the critical underpinnings of the examinations of race, history, society, culture, ontology, and ideas of witnessing. As a critical-theoretical intervention and a lyric prose artifact, \u003ci\u003eNo One’s Witness\u003c\/i\u003e will appeal not only to theorists and critics, but also to poets, professors, and students.” -- John Keene, author of * Counternarratives: Stories and Novellas *\u003cbr\u003e“Renewing the poetics of survival and witnessing, Syd Zolf asks what it means to witness as No One, where No One is less a position than a form or mode of responsiveness that emerges in the continuing aftermath of annihilation. This No One is not one, yet it offers here a way of bearing witness in forms both monstrous and rife with possible futures. In this book poetics is the interruptive work of philosophy and poetry taken together. \u003ci\u003eNo One's Witness \u003c\/i\u003eshows in brilliant and moving ways how language must change to come close to registering the living aftermath of destruction.” -- Judith Butler, author of * The Force of Nonviolence: An Ethico-Political Bind *\u003cbr\u003e\"A valuable resource for those interested in German literature or Black history and other examples of human-made violence. Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty.\" -- R. C. Conard * Choice *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments  vii\u003cbr\u003e Opening 1\u003cbr\u003e 1. No  21\u003cbr\u003e 2. [  ]  43\u003cbr\u003e 3. one(s)  54\u003cbr\u003e 4. No One  62\u003cbr\u003e 5. bear(s)  73\u003cbr\u003e 6. witness  81\u003cbr\u003e 7. for  101\u003cbr\u003e 8. the  113\u003cbr\u003e 9. witness(es)  121\u003cbr\u003e Appendix  130\u003cbr\u003e Notes  133\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography  157\u003cbr\u003e Index  171","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408995426647,"sku":"9781478014249","price":17.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781478014249.jpg?v=1730505015","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/no-ones-witness-9781478014249","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}