Rethinking the concepts of "witnessing" and "witness" is highly relevant to the study of war crimes, mass murder and genocide. Through multiple readings, the volume shows the meanings and functions of witnessing in a political and historical context marked by the emergence of multiculturalism. The ultimate goal is the exploration of divergent and intersectional positions of the witness and witnessing as both concrete and hermeneutical categories. As a result, the mechanisms of social, political, and psychological oppression, murder and genocide will become tangible and understandable with greater precision and finesse.

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Yes, you can access Witnessing the Witness of War Crimes, Mass Murder, and Genocide by Manuela Consonni, Philip Galland Nord, Manuela Consonni,Philip Galland Nord in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in History & 20th Century History. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

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Publisher

De Gruyter Oldenbourg

Year

2023

eBook ISBN

9783110771466

Edition

Topic

History

Subtopic

20th Century History

Index

History

Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Introduction
The Witness to Genocide in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries
Primo Levi between the Editions
Inside and Outside the Courtroom: Witnessing the Massacres of Chinese in Japanese Occupied Malaya, Singapore, and Rabaul
Divided Memories? The Last Testimonies on Nazi Massacres in Italy
Identification and Make-Believe: The Fallacies of Prosthetic Memory
Adolf Eichmann in Jerusalem: Defendant and Witness in the Glass Booth?
The Witness’s Brew. On Imposture and Impostor Hunting
Expanding Historical Empathy: How the Holocaust is Helping Chinese Remember Atrocities of the Mao Era
Witnesses, Silence and Mimicry in Elias Khoury’s “Children of the Ghetto”
No Judges, Only Witnesses: Witnessing Genocide in the Vietnam Tribunalʼs Courtroom Setting of 1966–1967
Not Typical but Typifying: Varlam Shalamov’s “A Piece of Meat”
Witnessing as Counter-Power: Testimony and Crimes against Humanity in the Argentinian Province of Jujuy
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