'The dead are my teachers': the Scrolls of Auschwitz in Jerome Rothenberg's Khurbn
Title'The dead are my teachers': the Scrolls of Auschwitz in Jerome Rothenberg's Khurbn
Author
Call number940.5318/0427
Object number09011c
Place of publicationNew York, New York, United States
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan
Year of publication
2013
Physical descriptionpp58-84
MaterialArticle
Series titleHolocaust and Its Contexts
ISBN9781137297686
NotesArticle from the book 'Representing Auschwitz: at the margins of testimony' pp58-84
Description
Shows the ways in which the Scrolls can be read with the resources of post-war avant-garde literature. These can be seen to offer models of writing on the Holocaust. Analyses how cultural responses to the Scrolls also have a profound significance that requires investigating.