Między doświadczeniem a wydarzeniem. O zobowiązaniach świadka
Between Experience and Event. The Obligation of Witness
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Author(s): Anna CiarkowskaSubject(s): Studies of Literature
Published by: Łódzkie Towarzystwo Naukowe
Keywords: testimony; Holocaust literature; testimonial literature Shoah
Summary/Abstract: The aim of this article is to outline the definition of literary testimony and to define the position of the witness as an obliged writer. A basic definition reveals testimonial literature as a set of texts, ontologically uncertain, full of tensions and aporias. These tensions between testimony and document, testimony and autobiography, and also relations truth-fiction, individual-collective, experience-event delimit the area of literary testimony. In this complicated structer the witness, charged, limited by the obligation with is double. This is the obligation to take an action — bear witness and the obligation towards the Other.
Journal: Zagadnienia Rodzajów Literackich
- Issue Year: 62/2019
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 55-66
- Page Count: 12
- Language: Polish