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English Language Notes (2019) 57 (2): 114–126.
Published: 01 October 2019
...Sue Vice Abstract This article examines the contemporary phenomenon of fiction and film about Holocaust survivors suffering from dementia. Earlier examples of this kind use dementia to explore the interior states of survivor guilt and the suppression of painful memories. By contrast, twenty-first...
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English Language Notes (2006) 44 (2): 253–258.
Published: 01 September 2006
.... The firs t is a g ro u p o f p h o to g ra p hs, p rim a rily a u to b io g ra p h ica l in nature; th e second, a series o f portraits of residents at Bloom ington's housing projects; the third, a series of por traits o f Holocaust survivors (some o f w hich are reprinted here); and the fourth, p hoto...
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English Language Notes (2007) 45 (1): 111–121.
Published: 01 March 2007
... the Nazi genocide.The contents of these archives include the copious records kept by the Nazis, jo u r nalistic accounts and photographs from witnesses, documents produced by relief agencies assisting "displaced persons" after the war and the videotaped testimonies of Holocaust survivors.3 Remarkably...
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English Language Notes (2006) 44 (2): 243–251.
Published: 01 September 2006
... ilita n t Jews w h o settled in Palestine both before the w a r and the Holocaust survivors w ho came afterwards. W ithin the first few years o f resettlem ent, a split in the developing consciousness o f the young Jew ish state became apparent, as the early settlers w ere cast as strong and pow erfully...
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English Language Notes (2011) 49 (2): 119–124.
Published: 01 September 2011
... at the tim e ROBIN HEMLEY 123 were actual Holocaust survivors who believed that his accounts of a Holocaust childhood matched their own. W hile the scholar's case against Fragments makes a com pelling psycho logical story, it's a rather dense book, bogged down by detail. Side by side w ith Fragments, W...
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English Language Notes (2006) 44 (2): 229–230.
Published: 01 September 2006
... ity to its subjects, inflect traum atic events that so often are understood as unrepresentable? These essays, as w e ll as Jeffrey W olin's photographs o f Holocaust survivors and th e ir testi m ony, and Bill Freind's analysis o f the role o f the decoy in the G ulf W a r a trop e th ro u g h w hich...
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English Language Notes (2005) 43 (1): 63–77.
Published: 01 September 2005
... at the situation one encounters in The Pawnbroker, where a traumatized Holocaust survivor is haunted by memories of the concentration camps intrusive, involuntary memories that make him unable and unwilling to function in the present. Before he was to tackle the subject overtly in The Pawnbroker, Wallant...
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English Language Notes (2012) 50 (2): 9–13.
Published: 01 September 2012
.... The Holocaust survivor thrusts deeper beyond sacral levels, and not toward rescue. Thus Tenebrae's opening presses on: Grasped already, Lord, clawed into each other, as if each of our bodies were your body, Lord. If nothing else, Celan's plural voice w ir "Speaks true w ho speaks shadow," conjoining cru...
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English Language Notes (2006) 44 (2): 323–327.
Published: 01 September 2006
... olin's series of portraits o f Holocaust survivors, Written in M em ory: Portraits o f the Holocaust, was published by Chronicle Books, accompanying solo exhibitions o f this w ork at the A rt Institute of Chicago and the International Center o f Photography in N ew York. His Inconvenient Stories...
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English Language Notes (2008) 46 (1): 61–74.
Published: 01 March 2008
... a memory."21 Studies of m em ory and trauma have increased in recent years in part due to the passing of the last Holocaust survivors. The study of trauma has also been given more emphasis because of recent large-scale, man-made deaths in the West, the M iddle East, and Africa: Bosnia-Herzegovina, NewYork...
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English Language Notes (2019) 57 (2): 1–6.
Published: 01 October 2019
... of the Holocaust. Yet, as we approach the third decade of the twenty-first century, the event is about to become one of historical record, not of living memory, as the last survivors and eyewitnesses die. Via close readings of fiction and film—including Irene Dische’s short story “The Doctor Needs a Home” (1995...
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English Language Notes (2021) 59 (2): 66–80.
Published: 01 October 2021
... was working with the idea of visceral memory. . . . You have to feel it. —James Ingo Freed, architect of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum She [Iris Chang] really viscerally felt what was happening. . . . She really internalized the feelings of the people she was interviewing...
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English Language Notes (2019) 57 (2): 151–159.
Published: 01 October 2019
...Nicole Marie Gervasio Abstract This essay identifies a major blind spot in comparative memory studies despite the field’s recent “transcultural” turn: the danger of earmarking select globally recognized atrocities—specifically, the Holocaust, transatlantic slavery, and the Rwandan genocide...
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English Language Notes (2022) 60 (2): 156–174.
Published: 01 October 2022
... that her mother, a Jewish Holocaust survivor, often spoke to her about Chanel’s connection to Nazism, attempting to dissuade her from patronizing the brand. But the woman disregarded her mother’s pleas. For her, Chanel had no meaningful connection to Germany or Nazism. “Chanel is about France,” she said...
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English Language Notes (2019) 57 (2): 143–150.
Published: 01 October 2019
.... In her work on “migrations” of Holocaust memory, building on Hirsch’s work, Sanyal argues that the aim is “not to singularize the Holocaust as the paradigm of historical trauma, but rather to connect its memory with other memories of atrocity, often through a focus on the complicities between...
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English Language Notes (2019) 57 (2): 133–142.
Published: 01 October 2019
... . London , 1713 . Rogers Pat . A Political Biography of Alexander Pope . London : Pickering and Chatto , 2010 . Rothberg Michael . Multidirectional Memory: Remembering the Holocaust in the Age of Decolonization . Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press , 2009 . Rousseau...
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English Language Notes (2021) 59 (2): 109–120.
Published: 01 October 2021
... of the Holocaust in the delegitimization of the modernist project of rational social progress ( Differend , 56–58 ). 35 Fisher, “Metaphysics of Crackle.” 36 Caruth, “Trauma and Experience,” 4 ; Caruth, “Recapturing the Past,” 154 . 37 Leys, Trauma , 299 . 38 Leys, Trauma , 301...
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English Language Notes (2008) 46 (2): 175–192.
Published: 01 September 2008
..., these stories w ould probably be deeply disturbing failures, seen as trivializing the Holocaust or AIDS. In the rare occasions where the traumas do appear to have political resonances, such as the Hulk's echoing of atomic testing, the political aspects of this become largely erased or ignored.The Hulk may...
