No one's witness: a monstrous poetics

"No One's Witness investigates the poetics of witness in queerly monstrous forms, exploding the boundaries between testifying to what one "sees with one's very own eyes" and bearing witness to things and events beyond comprehension. In this work, Rachel Zolf deconstructs and...

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1. Verfasser: Zolf, Rachel 1968- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Durham ; London Duke University Press 2021
Schriftenreihe:Black outdoors
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Zusammenfassung:"No One's Witness investigates the poetics of witness in queerly monstrous forms, exploding the boundaries between testifying to what one "sees with one's very own eyes" and bearing witness to things and events beyond comprehension. In this work, Rachel Zolf deconstructs and reconfigures the last three lines of Romanian poet and Nazi holocaust survivor Paul Celan's poem "Aschenglorie" (Ashglory)- "No one / bears witness for the / witness"-word by word to investigate the poetic, ethico-political, and onto-epistemic limits of witnessing, whether in person or through literature and art"--
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:viii, 182 Seiten Illustrationen 23 cm
ISBN:9781478013334
9781478014249

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