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boundary 2 (2015) 42 (3): 23–35.
Published: 01 August 2015
...Harry Harootunian In this essay, I propose that the forced convergence of history and memory in Fukushima resulted in singularizing expressions of experience and memory, thus inducing survivors to focus on the immediate context of the everyday itself rather than the nation and national history...
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boundary 2 (2013) 40 (3): 1–38.
Published: 01 August 2013
..., or put by the latter into the former’s mouth) and the survivor’s testimony, as circumscribed in our “era of the witness.” It also reflects on Derrida’s timidity in Archive Fever , with regard to explaining the intimate relationship between the “archive” and the “great holocaustic tragedies of our modern...
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boundary 2 (2015) 42 (3): 143–155.
Published: 01 August 2015
...Christopher T. Nelson In the aftermath of the Battle of Okinawa, the American military turned its efforts toward fortifying its new strategic outpost in the Pacific. Okinawan survivors were left to rebuild their lives in the ruins of their farms and villages. The dead were buried deeply and quickly...
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boundary 2 (2023) 50 (4): 75–96.
Published: 01 November 2023
... Press 2023 translation incomprehensibility Holocaust witness survivor How so disappeared? The dead: don't you have a memory in which you keep them, in which they remain present to you, talking or silent, standing toward and against you, being faithful and treacherous, courted or avoided...
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boundary 2 (2001) 28 (2): 203–228.
Published: 01 May 2001
..., and psychological assumptions that determine the assig-
nation of language to an event. Our choice of such terms as ‘‘martyrs’’ or
‘‘burnt offering’’ reflects our own interests: it reveals a ‘‘distortion invented
for our comfort offering ‘‘psychological relief however small, not to the vic-
tims or the survivors...
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boundary 2 (2023) 50 (4): 49–60.
Published: 01 November 2023
... different and complicated ways. For Celan, as witness to the “univers concentrationaire,” cannot but bear witness, even though the mode of this witnessing differs vastly from that of most survivors, while simultaneously radically differing in relation to itself over time. The single best-known poem by Celan...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2009) 36 (2): 155–175.
Published: 01 May 2009
... and bones that appear in the black-and-white images of mass
graves and emaciated survivors. The image of “nothing”—this image of
the failure to see the Holocaust in which “everything was burned”—also
becomes an image of what one cannot see: the bones and corpses that
once filled this now tranquil...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2023) 50 (4): 61–73.
Published: 01 November 2023
... and early 1990s when I read Paul Celan's poetry with as much care as I could manage, hampered by my limited knowledge of German. An unjustified sense of my ability to understand kept me going, prompted by upbringing and family history. My father was a Holocaust survivor—and Holocaust historian—silent...
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boundary 2 (2007) 34 (2): 71–103.
Published: 01 May 2007
... be articulated to the socio-symbolic order requires a retroactive
encounter, between the survivor, who underwent the experience, and a
belated listener, whose bearing the witness of the survivor keeps record of
the survivor’s testimony. As substitute for the absent historical witness...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2017) 44 (4): 141–154.
Published: 01 November 2017
... to be a myth” (Janis
1951: 192). This was true of A-bomb survivors as well as of those who went
through conventional bombing: Janis finds no significant differences. Nor,
he suggests, did civilian morale suffer visibly from either conventional or
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atomic explosions...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2017) 44 (4): 15–32.
Published: 01 November 2017
...: Aesthetic Pleasure in Holocaust Representation . Urbana : University of Illinois Press . Linfield Susie . 2011 . The Cruel Radiance: Photography and Political Violence . Chicago : University of Chicago Press . Mamdani Mahmood . 2010 . Saviors and Survivors: Darfur, Politics...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2017) 44 (1): 239–265.
Published: 01 February 2017
... for the many, a few would
consolidate them and form the survivor class. They would, in short, take a
hit for the species, submit to the sacrifice of evolving beyond this impasse
for the rest of the overpopulated and no doubt genetically messy and
wasteful remainders. They would be aided by new...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2016) 43 (3): 133–157.
Published: 01 August 2016
... merciless Nazi persecution. Yet in the camp, through-
out, they were a strongly felt presence. A survivor of Terezín remembered a
coprisoner and co-Jew: “He had communist ideas—I don’t know how seri-
ous they were but they made him content.”3 In Digoel, by definition, as the
camp’s raison d’être...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2022) 49 (3): 29–38.
Published: 01 August 2022
... of news was measured by its grotesqueness,” writes Geoffrey O'Brien ( 1988 : 178) in his wonderful book Dream Time . But of course the sixties ended, and many of us are its orphans, or survivors. Nobby characterized himself as a survivor in 1989, addressing the conference on “Revisioning Historical...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2018) 45 (4): 103–126.
Published: 01 November 2018
... and Survivors in South Asia , edited by Das Veena , 69 – 91 . Delhi : Oxford University Press . Pappe Ilan . 1997 . “ Post- Zionist Critique on Israel and the Palestinians: Part I: The Academic Debate .” Journal of Palestine Studies 26 , no. 2 : 29 – 41 . Pappe Ilan . 2010...
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boundary 2 (2023) 50 (4): 29–48.
Published: 01 November 2023
..., these characteristics can be interpreted as Celan failing to live up to the survivor's perceived task as witness; seen as positively emblematic, they can be interpreted as performative of (and thus also as demanding from the reader) a reading the finality of which is often—openly or not—posited as essentially...
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boundary 2 (2020) 47 (3): 165–168.
Published: 01 August 2020
... an unforgettable tension between the voice of a man telling quiet facts about his life and the voices of survivors. What began as a personal diary went on to become elaborate, boldly drawn portraits of other, nearly erased figures. Austerlitz, for example, will never abandon Sebald s readers. Where...
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boundary 2 (2008) 35 (1): 23–34.
Published: 01 February 2008
... defined). But Sofsky also noted (as
30 boundary 2 / Spring 2008
Agamben does not) that the survivor testimonies he had relied upon came
mostly from political prisoners, not Jews—a fact of some importance given
Agamben’s stress on the emblematic position of the Jews in the biopolitics...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2024) 51 (1): 179–201.
Published: 01 February 2024
... narratives. Masculine rapaciousness is once again responsible for the dead world, which froze over after a chemical was sprayed to bring down spiking temperatures; in a train that contains all survivors, American and English men create a system in which the superrich indulge in ritzy pleasures (sushi bars...
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boundary 2 (2024) 51 (3): 13–38.
Published: 01 August 2024
... as a “survivor, “lucky,” as he scratches the itches caused by invading fleas. On his way to the station he is continually surrounded by the noise of ceaseless construction and the pounding of hammers shaping the figure of the future, “the dawn of a New Japan . . . Ton-ton . The reconstruction work starts early...
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