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Film as Testimonial Literature
American Anthropologist, 1997Hidden Scars. 1994. 50 minutes, color. Written, directed, and produced by Grace Barnes. For more information, contact The University of California Extension Center for Media and Independent Learning, 2000 Center Street, Fourth Floor, Berkeley, CA 94704; (510) 642‐0460.
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The Testimonial Double Bind for Disabled People
Social EpistemologyDisabled people face a testimonial double bind: Either (1) they give entirely positive testimony about their disability, which may not be believed, or (2) they give some negative testimony about their disability, which either (2a) may not be believed ...
Avram Hiller
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2018
At the time of his deportation to Buchenwald, Semprun was a member of the Communist Resistance. His political beliefs appear to have sustained him through the experience, scarred but not traumatized. The experience only becomes traumatic, in the sense of radically destabilizing his identity and beliefs, when his Communist convictions are tested and ...
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At the time of his deportation to Buchenwald, Semprun was a member of the Communist Resistance. His political beliefs appear to have sustained him through the experience, scarred but not traumatized. The experience only becomes traumatic, in the sense of radically destabilizing his identity and beliefs, when his Communist convictions are tested and ...
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Literature of testimony between oblivion and deliberate omission
Voprosy literatury, 2023Prison camp texts constitute a very important stratum of 20th-c. literature. On their way to the reader, they overcome the barriers of fear and reluctance to immerse oneself into a complex and traumatic narrative, a recurrent risk of oblivion, and repeated suppression by censorship — on behalf of the authorities and educational institutions as well as ...
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Gestures of Testimony : Torture, Trauma, and Affect in Literature
Textual Practice, 2016Michael Richardson’s new book, Gestures of Testimony: Torture, Trauma and Affect in Literature, redresses the hidden acts of torture and excavates the way torturing and tortured bodies leak into li...
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Voices for the Voiceless: Testimonial Literature in Latin America
Latin American Perspectives, 1991All forms of political domination depend on the human construction of social and cultural differences among persons and peoples, for without differences there would be no basis for distinguishing those who wield power from those who are subject to it. The most potent political ideas about difference are those that are "naturalized" such that they seem ...
Georg Gugelberger, Michael Kearney
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Testimony between historiography and literature
2011This talk will discuss the specific character of testimony about traumatic experiences of the World War II, particularly those from the concentration camps. Presented are the main points of view from the Anglo-American trauma theory regarding the modes of expressing such an experience (C. Caruth, H. White, D. La Capra).
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Testimonies and Literature as Alternative Transitional Justice in Algeria
Interventions, 2020This essay emerged from a practice-led project, in which Algerian women survivors of the Civil War of the 1990s narrate their first-hand testimonies in the presence of authors who endeavoured to tr...
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Open Secrets: Literature, Politics and Testimonial Truth
2018This chapter extends the argument of the book by considering literature as a paradigmatic example of the secret. It focuses particularly on Derrida’s consideration of testimony, or the act of speaking one’s own unique truth.
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