Incapable of revealing the event: Elie Wiesel and the reading of memoir-writing
[nb-NO]Title[nb-NO]Incapable of revealing the event: Elie Wiesel and the reading of memoir-writing
[nb-NO]Author[nb-NO]
Call number940.5318/0048
[nb-NO]Object number[nb-NO]08667f
[nb-NO]Place of publication[nb-NO]Evanston, Illinois, United States
[nb-NO]Publisher[nb-NO]Northwestern University Press
[nb-NO]Year of publication[nb-NO]
2012
[nb-NO]Pagination[nb-NO]pp105-119
[nb-NO]Material[nb-NO]Article
[nb-NO]ISBN[nb-NO]9780810128620
NotesArticle from the book 'Lessons and legacies X: back to the sources: reexamining perpetrators, victims, and bystanders pp105-119
[nb-NO]Description[nb-NO]
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