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| Genre/Form: | Interviews Personal narratives |
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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Greenspan, Henry, 1948- On listening to Holocaust survivors. Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 1998 (OCoLC)607068770 |
| Material Type: | Biography |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Henry Greenspan |
| ISBN: | 0275957187 9780275957186 |
| OCLC Number: | 38215580 |
| Description: | xx, 199 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Initiations; The Forms of Recounting - Tellable Beginnings; The Context of Recounting - Survivors and Their Listeners; Voices, Stories and Enactments; A Gathering of Voices; The Stories of the Prosecutor I; The Stories of the Prosecutor II; On Having a Story to Tell; On Listening to Survivors - Some Conclusions. |
| Responsibility: | Henry Greenspan ; foreword by Robert Coles. |
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Abstract:
This volume is based on interviews the author has conducted with the same core group of Holocaust survivors for more than two decades. Survivors' recounting is shown to be influenced both by the narrators' life histories before and after the Holocaust, and by the expectations of their listeners.
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"Throughout this book...theory is encompassed by direct encounters, and these are conveyed with exceptional power and grace. The result is an incomparable work: No one has measured the depths of survivors' accounts more insightfully and discretely, with more scrupulous attention to detail, context, and implication, than Greenspan."-Sidney Bolkosky Professor of History University of Michigan- Dearborn Read more...
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- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives -- History and criticism.
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