Storytelling: The Destruction of the Inalienable in the Age of the Holocaust

by Rodolphe Gasché

Book Overview

In Storytelling, Rodolphe Gasch reexamines the muteness of Holocaust survivors, that is, their inability to tell their stories. This phenomenon has not been explained up to now without reducing the violence of the events to which survivors were subjected, on the one hand, and diminishing the specific harm that has been done to them as human beings, on the other. Distinguishing storytelling from testifying and providing information, Gasch ...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1438471467
• ISBN13: 9781438471464
• Release Date: January 2019
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.9" x 8.9"