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Genre/Form: | Personal Narrative Interview interviews Interviews Criticism, interpretation, etc Personal narratives Annotations (Provenance) Récits personnels Entretiens |
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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; Mazal Holocaust Collection. |
ISBN: | 0275957187 9780275957186 |
OCLC Number: | 38215580 |
Description: | xx, 199 pages ; 24 cm |
Contents: | Foreword / Robert Coles -- Introduction: From Testimony to Recounting -- 1. The Forms of Recounting: Tellable Beginnings -- 2. The Context of Recounting: Survivors and Their Listeners -- 3. A Gathering of Voices -- 4. The Stories of the Prosecutor I -- 5. The Stories of the Prosecutor II -- 6. On Having a Story to Tell -- 7. On Listening to Survivors: Some Conclusions. |
Responsibility: | Henry Greenspan ; foreword by Robert Coles. |
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Abstract:
How do Holocaust survivors find words and voice for their memories of terror and loss? We learn, for example, how survivors perceive us, their listeners, and the impact of listeners on what survivors do, in fact, retell.
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