...Lawrence L. Langer The search for words to convey the deathlife that was Auschwitz turns up in witness testimony, memoir, and fiction, as all three conspire to find a language appropriate to an experience that is utterly alien to most audiences and that is not based on research from written...

... or conversational speech change shape in the context of testimony? What happens when Charlotte Delbo uses metaphor, simile, or personification to convey her experiences in Auschwitz? What happens to oral testimony when Holocaust survivors bear witness while the camera records parasemantic body language that swerves...

... refusal of reproductive futurism in Lee Edelman's No Future (2004), and the negation of the thinkability of fatherhood through the trauma of Auschwitz in Imre Kertész's Kaddish for a Child Not Born (1990). The complexity and incommensurability of the critical stances of antireproductive antifuturism...

... and reimagine; the other part believes, as Primo Levi did, ‘‘that no words can be used to describe this offense: the demolition of a man’’ or, as Theodor Adorno once wrote: ‘‘To make poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric So what is a novelist with my special Holocaust pedigree to do? Despite all the inner...

...] Nadja , translated by Richard Howard (New York:Grove). Carjaval, Doreen 1999 “Disputed Holocaust Memoir Withdrawn,” New York Cmes , October 14, B1 . Cohn, Dorrit 1999 The Distinction of Fiction (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press). Czech, Danuta 1990 Auschwitz Chronicle...

... During the summer of 1998, we sat down with two groups of three sur- vivors each to talk about these survivors’ various experiences being inter- viewed over the years. The first group—Agi, Abe, and Alex—were all survivors of Auschwitz and other camps and had been in their mid to late adolescence...

... (Bloomington: Indiana University Press). Klein, Kerwin L. 2000 “On the Emergence of Memory in Historical Discourse,” Representations 69 : 127 -49. LaCapra, Dominick 1998 History and Memory after Auschwitz (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press). Langer, Lawrence L. 1995 Admitting...

... Trauma: Slavery and the Formation of African American Identity (Cambridge:Cambridge University Press). Ezrahi, Sidra DeKoven 1980 By Words Alone:The Holocaust in Literature (Chicago: University of Chicago Press). 1996 “Representing Auschwitz,” History and Memory 7 (2): 121 -54. Farrell...

... is the author of On Listening to Holocaust Survivors: Recounting and Life History (1998) and, with Agi Rubin, Reflections: Auschwitz, Memory, and a Life Recreated (2006). His play, REMNANTS (1992), also concerning Holocaust survivors, has been performed worldwide. Jan T. Gross is professor of history...

... tory of the destruction of the Jews (Lang 1988: 273). Hilberg is recalling a dichotomy between history and memory (for him, embodied by poetry and narrative) that has had a shaping effect. But fifty years after Adorno’s contradictory injunctions about poetry after Auschwitz, poetry is now only...

...Geoffrey Hartman Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2006 The Humanities of Testimony: An Introduction Geoffrey Hartman English and Comparative Literature, Yale In the year 2005, the sixtieth anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz and other death, slave-labor...

...Jan T. Gross The article calls for close reading of Holocaust testimonies and reminiscences. Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2006 Agamben, Giorgio 1999 Remnants of Auschwitz: The Witness and the Archive (New York: Zone Books). Akhmatova, Anna 1988 Poems (Moscow...

... York:Routledge). Levi, Primo 1961 Survival in Auschwitz , translated by Stuart Woolf (New York: Collier)(originally appeared in English under the title If This Is A Man [New York:Collier]). 1965 The Truce: A Survivor's Journey from Auschwitz , translated by Stuart Woolf (London: Bodley Head...

... testimony about events that the actual author has not witnessed. © 2004 by the Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2004 Agamben, Giorgio 1989 The Remnants of Auschwitz (New York: Zone). Allen, Donald, ed. 1960 The New American Poetry: 1945–1960 (New York: Grove). Alperovitz...

..., is the paradigmatic figure of Dr. Death, a ruthless surgeon, a monster-maker who indiscriminately destroys and creates life. This icon, often related to the real-life Auschwitz physician Josef Mengele, is found everywhere: in anguished...

... Remnants of Auschwitz: The Witness and the Archive . Translated by Heller-Roazen Daniel ( New York : Zone ). Appelfield Aharon . 1988 The Immortal Bartfuss . Translated by Green Jeffrey M. ( New York : Harper and Row ). Baudrillard Jean . 1989 Looking Back on the End...

... to reflection, abstraction, critical examination of the past and the ideological character of its representation. Thus, in the early stages of German documentarism, whose political and moral anger was fanned by the so-called “Auschwitz trials” of former camp guards and SS officers in Frankfurt in 1963...

...; the Jaeger report (enumerating executions by Einsatzkommando 3 after invasion of the Soviet Union); the Korherr report (a survey of victim deaths by Himmler’s statistician); the Broad report (written by former SS guard Perry Broad in British captivity after the war about gassings in Auschwitz...

... Loiterature (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press). Clément, Catherine 1979 “Auschwitz, ou la disparition,” L'Arc 76 : 87 -90. Cortázar, Julio 1966 [1963] Hopscotch , translated by Gregory Rabassa (New York: Pantheon). Cortázar, Julio, and Carol Dunlop 1983 Les autonautes de la...

... When Josephine begins to cry, she says to herself, ‘‘Stupid for breaking down. Zezette L. (1980) discusses how she never talks with her brother about the Holocaust. ‘‘He knows I went back to Auschwitz. He cannot talk. He knows that I now talk. (Zezette addresses the interviewers and begins to cry...