Incapable of revealing the event: Elie Wiesel and the reading of memoir-writing
TitleIncapable of revealing the event: Elie Wiesel and the reading of memoir-writing
Author
Call number940.5318/0048
Object number08667f
Place of publicationEvanston, Illinois, United States
PublisherNorthwestern University Press
Year of publication
2012
Physical descriptionpp105-119
MaterialArticle
ISBN9780810128620
NotesArticle from the book 'Lessons and legacies X: back to the sources: reexamining perpetrators, victims, and bystanders pp105-119
Description
Using several autobiographical narratives by Elie Wiesel, Weissman explores the ways in which the "the difficulty of 'revealing'... is inextricably tied to - and conflated with - difficulties involved in representing a person's life and identity through storytelling." Argues that the richest and most nuanced reading of life stories focus not on any single, definitive version of the past, but on a dialogue through ongoing memoir-writing and rewriting