Witness and Memory: The Discourse of Trauma [Paperback]

This is a collection within the anthropology of violence and witness studies, a discipline inaugurated in the 1980s. It accomplishes a tight focus while tackling seemingly disparate topics: from Rigoberat Menchu to O.J. Simpson, and from feminist poetry to Hiroshima Mon Amour. With approaches ranging from anthropological and historical to literary and philosophical, this collection is engaging in both subject matter and writing style.

This is a collection within the anthropology of violence and witness studies, a discipline inaugurated in the 1980s. It accomplishes a tight focus while tackling seemingly disparate topics: from Rigoberat Menchu to O.J. Simpson, and from feminist poetry to Hiroshima Mon Amour. With approaches ranging from anthropological and historical to literary and philosophical, this collection is engaging in both subject matter and writing style.

Thomas A. Vogler is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Ana Douglass is Assistant Professor of English at Truckee Meadows College in Reno, Nevada.AcknowledgementsIntroductionThe EssaysThe Menchu Effect: Strategic Lies and Approximate Truths in Texts of Witness - Ana DouglassExcessive Witnessing: The Ethical as Temptation - Joseba ZulaikaWitness in the Wilderness: The Tropical Tryst of Claude Levi-Strauss and Theodor Roosevelt - William A. DouglassAn All White Jury: Judging Citizenship in the Simpson Criminal Trial - Cindy PattonPoetry, Witness, Feminism - Harret DavidsonPoetic Witness/ Writing the Real - ^{homas A. Vogler}The Limits of Vision: Hiroshima Mon Amour and the Subversion of Representation - Kyo MaclearThe Burning Babe: Children, Film Narrative, and the Figures of Historical Witness - Tyrus MillerEx/propriating Survivor Experience, or Auschwitz 'after' Lyotard - Karyn BallBetween History and Memory: Tlƒ3