Synopses & Reviews
Includes bibliographical references (p. [331]-360) and index.
Synopsis
This is a collection within the anthropology of violence and witness studies, a discipline inaugurated in the 1980s. It accomplishes a tight focus while tackling seemingly disparate topics: from Rigoberat Menchu to O.J. Simpson, and from feminist poetry to Hiroshima Mon Amour. With approaches ranging from anthropological and historical to literary and philosophical, this collection is engaging in both subject matter and writing style.
Table of Contents
The Menchuâ effect: strategic lies and approximate truths in texts of witness / Ana Douglas -- Excessive witnessing: the ethical as temptation / Joseba Zulaika -- Witness in the wilderness: the tropical tryst of Claude Lâevi-Strauss and Theodore Roosevelt / William A. Douglass -- An all white jury: judging citizenship in the Simpson criminal trial / Cindy Patton -- Poetry, witness, feminism / Harriet Davidson -- Poetic witness: writing the real / Thomas A. Vogler -- The burning babe: children, film narrative, and the figures of historical witness / Tyrus Miller -- The limits of vision: Hiroshima mon amour and the subversion of representation / Kyo Maclear -- Ex/propriating survivor experience, or Auschwitz "after" Lyotard / Karyn Ball -- Between history and memory: the voice of the eywitness / James E. Young.