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...Dunja Dušanić Abstract This article examines the relationship between poetry and testimony in order to outline a viable framework for interpreting testimonial poetry (or “poetry of witness,” in Carolyn Forché’s terms) as a literary genre in its own right. Neglected in favor of other, mimetically...

... of the Jewish memorial book, a literary genre both testimonial and folkloric, on Foer's depiction of shtetl life and its destruction during the Holocaust. Jewish memorial books, encyclopedic record books composed by Holocaust survivors, memorialize, with deep nostalgic longing, the lost inhabitants and culture...

... Autobiography . Chapel Hill : U of North Carolina P , 1999 . Gilmore Leigh . The Limits of Autobiography: Trauma, Testimony, Theory . Ithaca : Cornell UP , 2000 . Henke Suzette . Shattered Subjects: Trauma and Testimony in Women's Life-Writing . New York : St. Martin's P , 1998...

... of the Modern Fact: Problems of Knowledge in the Sciences of Wealth and Society . Chicago : University of Chicago Press . Schramm Jan-Melissa . 2000 . Testimony and Advocacy in Victorian Law, Literature, and Theology . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press . Shapin Steven Schaffer...

... are "collective documents, testimonies written by individuals to their common struggle" (120). The writings of Harlow's discussion articulate a collec- tive notion of self, a sense of the author's story as part of a larger narrative. The text becomes a site of discursive intervention where the literary...

... poet. While H.D. wrote extensively about film and films, and participated very active- ly in film production, and Stein helpfully claimed in her lecture "Portraits" that "our period was undoubtedly the period of the cinema" (cited on 56), there is considerably less testimony to be heard...

... of view. Testimonies or transportation are singular, having been experi- enced differently by every survivor and all of these are a critical part of the trag- edy. For Gigliotti, personal accounts destabilize what she calls “factual control” and nothing makes a historian more nervous, she explains (34...

... with testimonios and then confuses both formats with short audio clips. Ma thinks to herself: Although a valuable archive of the lost children would need to be composed, fundamentally, of a series of testimonies or oral histories that register their own voices telling their stories, it doesn't seem right...

...:  But at the same time he agrees: he has to die for the revolution. Tuaillon:  That’s right, but a martyr has to leave a trace in order to testify. Negri:  The idea of martyrdom can have many meanings: the martyr to destroy others, the martyr as testimony, with all the gradations in between...

... by Jewett Benjamin . Project Gutenberg , www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1616 (accessed July 6, 2012) . Steinberg Leo . 1981 . “Velázquez's Las Meninas.” October 19 . 2 : 52 . Vaneigem Raoul . 1994 . The Movement of the Free Spirit: General Considerations and Firsthand Testimony...

... will call “academic talk” hardly escapes notice. If readers walk away from this book highly conscious of the signature features of the academic style—“X is routed through Y”; “nothing so much as”; “X is not long to seek”; “it is X that Y”; “in X no less than in Y”—then it is another testimony...

... incarcerated women's testimony thus entails sifting and sorting through the voices of women in prison, foregrounding the resourceful ways in which they make use of available materi- LEGALLY BLIND 609 als, rendering audible instances when...

... because donated organs are not available. Two weeks later, in testimony before a US Senate committee, Collins (2010c) continued to make the argument that suspending funding (for the quest) would mean that “patients may have to put hope on hold” and seemed to make a direct reference to Reeve...

... erasure. As prisons grow more crowded and violent, rising above conditions becomes harder and more necessary. Nineties' chronicles increasingly resemble the testimonies writers everywhere find indispensable during periods of repres- sion. Take Victor Hassine, who fell into documentary almost...

... Watson Julia . Madison, WI : U. of Wisconsin P. , 1998 . 72 - 82 . Gilmore Leigh . The Limits of Autobiography: Trauma and Testimony . Ithaca, NY and London : Cornell UP , 2001 . Goldman A. E. 1996 . Take My Word: Autobiographical Innovations of Ethnic American Working...

... and imprisonment offer the allure, for queer criticism, of reify- ing a sometimes intangible experience of oppression: look, it can say, I suffered there, where Oscar did, and De Profundis might be read—indeed, has been read—as documenting oppression in a straightforward testimonial to homopho- bia's...

... was severe. Planners in London could not rely on 7. Cf. Steensgaard 1973, 120; Lawson 1993, 20. 164 GENRE oral testimony alone to inform them of the markets they hoped to penetrate and the optimal routes to, among, and from them. They mounted multiple voyages, each involving complex financial...

... been denied standing as analysis and testimony that could advance understanding of both racial antagonism and the centrality of community to the oppressed. The political meanings of Raise Up Off Me can be readily grasped, particularly with the help of George Lipsitz's loving understanding...

... first presented The Well Wrought Urn , he stressed that it had had its origin in a classroom. He had taught the various poems that he wrote about in the volume in a 1942 summer session at the University of Michigan, and he clearly meant for that origin story to stand as testimony...

.... Indeed, the testimony of the tale actually contradicts the Physician's diagno- sis of the social origins of gendered violence; Virginia's death at the hand of her father serves to locate the primary threat to the safety of girls within the family, rather than outside it. She will become a casualty...