Witness Between Languages

Author : Peter Davies,Peter J. Davies
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781640140295

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Witness Between Languages by Peter Davies,Peter J. Davies Pdf

A growing body of scholarship is making visible the contribution of translators to the creation, preservation, and transmission of knowledge about the Holocaust. The discussion has tended to be theoretical or to concentrate on exposing the "distorted" translations of texts by important witnesses such as Anne Frank or Elie Wiesel. There is therefore a need for a positive, concrete, and contextually aware approach to the translation of Holocaust testimonies that acknowledges the achievements of translators while being sensitive to the consequences of particular translation strategies. Peter Davies's study proceeds from the assumption that translators are active co-creators whose work does not simply mediate a pre-existing text, but creates a representation of that text for a new readership in a specific context. Translators of Holocaust testimonies, then, provide a form of textual commentary that works through ideas about witnessing, historical truth, and the meaning of the Holocaust. In this way they are important co-creators of knowledge about the Holocaust and its legacy. The study focuses on translations between English and German, and from other languages (principally French, Russian, and Polish) into English and German. It works through a number of case studies, showing how making translation and its effects visible contributes to a clearer understanding of how knowledge about the Holocaust has been and continues to be created and mediated. Peter Davies is Professor of German at the University of Edinburgh.

Author : Michael Bernard-Donals,Richard Glejzer
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780791489673

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Between Witness and Testimony by Michael Bernard-Donals,Richard Glejzer Pdf

The Holocaust presents an immense challenge to those who would represent it or teach it through fiction, film, or historical accounts. Even the testimonies of those who were there provide only a glimpse of the disaster to those who were not. Between Witness and Testimony investigates the difficulties inherent in the obligation to bear witness to events that seem not just unspeakable but also unthinkable. The authors examine films, fictional narratives, survivor testimonies, and the museums at Yad Vashem and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in order to establish an ethics of Holocaust representation. Traversing the disciplines of history, philosophy, religious studies, and literary and cultural theory, the authors suggest that while no account adequately provides access to what Adorno called "the extremity that eludes the concept," we are still obliged to testify, to put into language what history cannot contain.

Author : Kia Lindroos,Frank Möller
Publisher : Verlag Barbara Budrich
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2017-02-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783847409731

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Art as a Political Witness by Kia Lindroos,Frank Möller Pdf

The book explores the concept of artistic witnessing as political activity. In which ways may art and artists bear witness to political events? The Contributors engage with dance, film, photography, performance, poetry and theatre and explore artistic witnessing as political activity in a wide variety of case studies.

Author : Charles H. Kraft
Publisher : Orbis Books
Page : 493 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781608332403

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Anthropology for Christian Witness by Charles H. Kraft Pdf

"Anthropology for Christian Witness serves as a thorough, basic introduction to the study of anthropology that has been designed specifically for those who plan careers in mission or cross-cultural ministry. The work of Charles H. Kraft, author of the classic Christianity in Culture, and widely acknowledged as one of the foremost Evangelical missionary anthropologists, this new work represents the synthesis of a lifetime of teaching and study. Kraft treats the very basics, including theories of culture and society; an assessment of the various anthropological schools; kinship and family structure, and cross-cultural communication."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Author : Brant A. Gardner
Publisher : Greg Kofford Books
Page : 673 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2007-09-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Second Witness: Analytical and Contextual Commentary on the Book of Mormon by Brant A. Gardner Pdf

Stop looking for the Book of Mormon in Mesoamerica and start looking for Mesoamerica in the Book of Mormon! Second Witness, a new six-volume series from Greg Kofford Books, takes a detailed, verse-by-verse look at the Book of Mormon. It marshals the best of modern scholarship and new insights into a consistent picture of the Book of Mormon as a historical document. Taking a faithful but scholarly approach to the text and reading it through the insights of linguistics, anthropology, and ethnohistory, the commentary approaches the text from a variety of perspectives: how it was created, how it relates to history and culture, and what religious insights it provides. The commentary accepts the best modern scholarship, which focuses on a particular region of Mesoamerica as the most plausible location for the Book of Mormon’s setting. For the first time, that location—its peoples, cultures, and historical trends—are used as the backdrop for reading the text. The historical background is not presented as proof, but rather as an explanatory context. The commentary does not forget Mormon’s purpose in writing. It discusses the doctrinal and theological aspects of the text and highlights the way in which Mormon created it to meet his goal of “convincing . . . the Jew and Gentile that Jesus is the Christ, the Eternal God.”

Author : Michal Givoni
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2016-10-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107150942

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The Care of the Witness by Michal Givoni Pdf

The Care of the Witness explores the historical shifts in the crises of witnessing to genocide, war, and disaster and their contribution to nongovernmental politics.

Author : Lea Wernick Fridman
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780791492444

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Words and Witness by Lea Wernick Fridman Pdf

Narratives of large-scale historical horror and trauma cross a terrible boundary in representation. What forms are adequate to such experience? What are the forms that such narratives actually take? Fridman is fascinated by the boundary that separates the representable from the unrepresentable and by the sense that literary works on either side of this boundary are governed by a different dynamic and set of rules from one another. Close readings of works by Aharon Appelfeld, Tadeusz Borowski, Paul Celan, Charlotte Delbo, Jerzy Kosinski, Claude Lanzmann, Dan Pagis, Piotr Rawicz, André Schwarz-Bart, and Elie Wiesel explore the inventive means by which these Holocaust writers wrestle with experiences that, in a very real sense, cannot be put into words. A new reading of Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness sets the stage for comparative and far-reaching literary insights into the notion and conception of traumatic narrative.

Author : Adam J. Goldwyn
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2021-08-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9783030788575

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Witness Literature in Byzantium by Adam J. Goldwyn Pdf

This book analyzes Byzantine examples of witness literature, a genre that focuses on eyewitness accounts written by slaves, prisoners, refugees, and other victims of historical atrocity. It focuses on such episodes in three nonfictional texts – John Kaminiates’ Capture of Thessaloniki (904), Eustathios of Thessaloniki’s Capture of Thessaloniki (1186), and Niketas Choniates’ History (ca. 1204–17) – and the three extant twelfth-century Komnenian novels to consider how the authors’ positions as both eyewitness and victim require an interpretive method that distinguishes witness literature from other kinds of writing about the past. Drawing on theoretical developments in the fields of Holocaust and Genocide Studies (such as Giorgio Agamben’s homo sacer and Michel Foucault’s biopolitics) and comparisons with modern examples (Elie Wiesel’s Night and Primo Levi’s If This is a Man), Witness Literature emphasizes the affective, subjective, and experiential in medieval Greek historical writing.

Author : Michael G. Levine
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0804755558

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The Belated Witness by Michael G. Levine Pdf

The Belated Witness examines major works by Art Spiegelman, Cynthia Ozick, Christa Wolf, and Paul Celan, focusing specifically on the unsettling configuration of birth-as-death trauma around which these texts are organized.

Author : Tanja Schult,Diana I. Popescu
Publisher : Springer
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2015-07-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137530424

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Revisiting Holocaust Representation in the Post-Witness Era by Tanja Schult,Diana I. Popescu Pdf

This volume explores post-2000s artistic engagements with Holocaust memory arguing that imagination plays an increasingly important role in keeping the memory of the Holocaust vivid for contemporary and future audiences.

Author : Otto Jespersen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1922
Category : Language and languages
ISBN : UCAL:B4016987

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Language by Otto Jespersen Pdf

Author : David Gramling
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2021-06-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781108490306

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The Invention of Multilingualism by David Gramling Pdf

Explores what multilingualism means today, in a historical moment when it is under intense discursive and technological pressure.

Author : Michael L. Morgan,Benjamin Pollock
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780791478295

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The Philosopher as Witness by Michael L. Morgan,Benjamin Pollock Pdf

Emil Fackenheim (1916–2003), one of the most important Jewish philosophers of the twentieth century, called on the world at large not only to bear witness to the Holocaust as an unprecedented assault on Judaism and on humanity, but also to recognize that the question of what it means to philosophize—indeed, what it means to be human—must be raised anew in its wake. The Philosopher as Witness begins with two recent essays written by Fackenheim himself and includes responses to the questions that Fackenheim posed to philosophy, Judaism, and humanity after the Holocaust. The contributors to this book dare to extend that questioning through a critical examination of Fackenheim's own thought and through an exploration of some of the ramifications of his work for fields of study and realms of religious life that transcend his own.

Author : Otto Jespersen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1922
Category : Language and languages
ISBN : UVA:X000872413

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Language; Its Nature, Development and Origin by Otto Jespersen Pdf

Author : Ana Douglass,Thomas A. Vogler
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2012-11-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136073625

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Witness and Memory by Ana Douglass,Thomas A. Vogler Pdf

This is a collection within the anthropology of violence and witness studies, a discipline inaugurated in the 1980s. It accomplishes a tight focus while tackling seemingly disparate topics: from Rigoberat Menchu to O.J. Simpson, and from feminist poetry to Hiroshima Mon Amour. With approaches ranging from anthropological and historical to literary and philosophical, this collection is engaging in both subject matter and writing style.