The ethics of silence : reading the lover's discourse in contemporary trauma narratives
In Testimony, Felman and Laub contend that a historical and collective trauma like the Holocaust cannot be represented, and cannot be understood, because it lacks a frame of reference. Indeed, a frame of reference for such a traumatic experience does not, and cannot, exist in the first place. Simila...
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Format: | Final Year Project (FYP) |
Language: | English |
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2017
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10356/70269 |