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Geoffrey Hartman
Holocaust Testimony in a Genocidal Era
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8:40-10:10 am
Sunday, January l6, 2005 - Congregation Beth Israel
The Law and Literature of The Holocaust
and Genocide
Professor Geoffrey Hartman - "Holocaust
Testimony in a Genocidal Era"
Professor Penny Pether - "Ungovernable
Subjects: Of Sex, Texts and Genocidal Practices in Post-invasion
Australia"
Judge Fausto Pocar - "The Approach
of the ICTY and the ICTR to Prosecuting Genocide Cases and the
Role of Retributive Justice in the Ad hoc International Tribunals"
Professor Saul Mendlovitz - "
The Prevention, Apprehension and Punishment of Genocide"
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book review of:
Scars of the Spirit
The Struggle Against Inauthenticity
In this fascinating collection of essays, noted cultural critic
Geoffrey Hartman raises the essential question of where we can
find the real or authentic in today's world, and how this affects
the way we can understand our human predicament. Hartman explores
such issues as the fantasy of total and perfect information available
on the Internet, the biographical excesses of tell-all daytime
talk shows, and how we can understand what is "true"
in biographical and testimonial writing. And, what, he asks, is
the ethical point of all this personal testimony? What has it
really taught us? Underlying the entire book is a question of
how the Holocaust has shaped the possibilities for truth and for
the writing of an authentic life story in today's world, and how
we can approach the world in a meaningful way. Hartman produces
a meditation on how an appreciation of the aesthetic qualities
of art and writing may help us to answer these questions of meaning.
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book review of:
The Longest Shadow
In the Aftermath of the Holocaust
"The Longest Shadow, a collection of essays on the cultural
'aftermath' of the Holocaust by the literary critic Geoffrey Hartman,
epitomizes this conflicted legacy of silence and speech, of numbness
and feeling - and of withdrawal and desire for connection. If Hartman's
essays confront the inadequacy of language in the bewildering, alienating
wake of the Holocaust, they also resonate with a sense of loneliness
that makes silence and isolation unbearable."
- Joanne Jacobson, The Nation
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