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The Longest Shadow Geoffrey H. Hartman

The Longest Shadow By Geoffrey H. Hartman

The Longest Shadow by Geoffrey H. Hartman

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This collection of essays explores life and culture, meaning and memory in the aftermath of the Holocaust. It takes up the question, "has the world learned anything?", discussing issues such as how artists, scholars and teachers have represented and transmitted experiences of the Holocaust.

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The Longest Shadow: In the Aftermath of the Holocaust: 2002 by Geoffrey H. Hartman

This collection of essays explores life and culture, meaning and memory in the aftermath of the Holocaust. It takes up the question, "has the world learned anything?", discussing issues such as how artists, scholars and teachers have represented and transmitted experiences of the Holocaust.

The Longest Shadow Reviews

'Hartman's essays are a sustained and nuanced critique of realism's refusal, carried in the name of 'truth,' to set limits to representation... It is a book that carefully analyzes and weighs complex issues; it is infused with a sense of moral responsibility and passion without falling into either pathos or moralizing.' - Judaism 'Hartman has been among the American intellectuals who have struggled most fruitfully with the question of 'forgiveness' or 'reconciliation." - The Nation 'The concerns discussed here are concerns for us all...The Longest Shadow illuminates the dangers inherent in representations of the Holocaust and of the obverse, the denial, of that unique part of our history.' - Pauline Elkes, Staffordshire University '[Hartman] lucidly evokes the damage done by the Shoah to our trust in language and social institutions, and the defence of art that he offers is all the stronger for his recognition of the historical abyss that it can neither evade nor represent adequately.' - Times Literary Supplement 'Perhaps of most interest to historians in the literary scholar Geoffrey Hartman's collection of essays, is the recurring theme of the value of survivor testimony as a source...But there is more than simply a sense of functional utility to the historian in collecting oral testimony. For Hartman there is an ethical imperative to listening to the stories of the survivors in the present.' - History Today

About Geoffrey H. Hartman

GEOFFREY HARTMAN is a noted literary critic, Sterling Professor of English & Comparative Literature and Director of the Holocaust video testimony project at Yale. He left Germany as a child as part of the kindertransport.

Table of Contents

Introduction The Longest Shadow The Weight of What Happened Darkness Visible Bitburg The Voice of Vichy The Cinema Animal: On Spielberg's Schindler's List Public Memory and Its Discontents The Book of the Destruction Learning from Survivors Holocaust Testimony, Art, and Trauma

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GOR004183436
9780312295684
0312295685
The Longest Shadow: In the Aftermath of the Holocaust: 2002 by Geoffrey H. Hartman
Geoffrey H. Hartman
Used - Very Good
Paperback
St Martin's Press
2002-12-19
192
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