Incapable of revealing the event: Elie Wiesel and the reading of memoir-writing
العنوانIncapable of revealing the event: Elie Wiesel and the reading of memoir-writing
مؤلف
Call number940.5318/0048
رقم الكائن08667f
مكان النشرEvanston, Illinois, United States
سنة النشر
2012
التوريقpp105-119
مادةArticle
ردمك9780810128620
NotesArticle from the book 'Lessons and legacies X: back to the sources: reexamining perpetrators, victims, and bystanders pp105-119
الوصف
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