Against the Unspeakable: Complicity, the Holocaust, and Slavery in America

Against the Unspeakable: Complicity, the Holocaust, and Slavery in America
ISBN-10
0813925819
ISBN-13
9780813925813
Category
American fiction
Pages
278
Language
English
Published
2006
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Author
Naomi Mandel

Description

In Against the Unspeakable, Naomi Mandel offers a paradigm of reading that will enable the crucial work on comparative atrocities and the representation of suffering to move beyond the impasse of "unspeakability." Discussing a variety of texts such as Toni Morrison's Beloved, Steven Spielburg's Schindler's List, and William Styron's Confessions of Nat Turner, Mandel asks: What does the evocation of the limits of language enable writers, authors, and critics to do?

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