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Book SynopsisThe Belated Witness examines major works by Art Spiegelman, Cynthia Ozick, Christa Wolf, and Paul Celan, focusing specifically on the unsettling configuration of birth-as-death trauma around which these texts are organized.
Trade Review"
The Belated Witness is a remarkable book and a stunning accomplishment. This beautiful, finely wrought, and impeccably argued text makes a vital and refreshing contribution to existing scholarship in a number of fields: Holocaust literary studies, contemporary German literature, psychoanalytic literary criticism, and literary theory, more generally. Timely, profound, thoughtful, and ambitious in scope, it could very well become an instant classic of literary criticism."—Elissa Marder, Emory University
"The book's importance lies not only in its insights into particular texts, but in its redefinition of testimony and our responses to it. This is an outstanding work." -- Marianne Hirsch * Columbia University *
Table of Contents@fmct:Contents @toc4:Acknowledgments iii @toc2:1. Introduction 1 2. Necessary Stains: The Bleeding of History in Spiegelman's maus I 000 3. The Vanishing Point: Spiegelman's maus II 000 4. Writing Anxiety: Christa Wolf's Patterns of Childhood and the Throat of the Witness 000 5. Toward an Addressable You: Ozick's The Shawl and the Mouth of the Witness 000 6. Silent Wine: Celan and the Poetics of Belatedness 000 @toc4:Notes 000 Works Cited 000 Index 000
