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Representing The Holocaust: Bearing Witness In Levi, Wiesel, And Sebald, Marissa Capizzi
Representing The Holocaust: Bearing Witness In Levi, Wiesel, And Sebald, Marissa Capizzi
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Representing large-scale historical traumatic events can be problematic as accounts are often subjective and biased. It is difficult to determine if the subjective historical account is factually accurate or not. When discussing the Holocaust, representation is an important factor. How is the Holocaust represented? This paper shows how literature can fill in the gaps of historical representation. I focus on psychoanalyst Dori Laub’s three levels of the witness and their role in testimony in relation to Holocaust literature. For Laub, the first level witness is the primary account from the person who experienced the trauma. The second level witness is …