Fantasies of Witnessing: Postwar Efforts to Experience the Holocaust
ISBN: 9781501730054
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Cornell University Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Holocaust Jewish (1939–1945) -- Historiography; Holocaust Jewish (1939–1945) -- Influence; Memory -- Social aspects;

Fantasies of Witnessing explores how and why those deeply interested in the Holocaust, yet with no direct, familial connection to it, endeavor to experience it vicariously through sites or texts designed to make it "real" for nonwitnesses. Gary...


Gary Weissman is Associate Professor of English at the University of Cincinnati and the author of The Writer in the Well: On Misreading and Rewriting Literature.

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