http://hdl.handle.net/1811/6014 Sun, 26 May 2013 02:20:24 GMT 2013-05-26T02:20:24Z http://kb.osu.edu:80/dspace/bitstream/id/12245/Identities2.GIF http://hdl.handle.net/1811/6014 http://hdl.handle.net/1811/6495 Testimony: Beyond the Language of Truth Strejilevich, Nora Tension exists between the ways in which testimonies voice their truth, and the expectations readers or listeners have regarding what truth means and how it should be voiced. Society favors systematizing testimony as a collection of facts whereas testimony after genocide does not abide by the rules established by the scientific/academic/legal apparatus. Rather, it voices the intimate, subjective, deep dimension of horror. Having witnessed the abyss of atrocity, survivors can no longer rely on knowledge or facts as the basis for thinking. It is mostly in the realm of literature where recounting becomes an elaboration of language so that it can invoke the true nature of the “event.” Based on authors such as Giorgio Agamben, Hannah Arendt, Ariel Dorfman, Shoshana Felman, Dominique LaCapra, Dori Laub, and Walter Benjamin, this article underscores the role of testimony as a means for working through traumatic memories and for social and cultural resistance - a must for the ethical recovery of a community after the experience of utmost exclusion. The University Archives has determined that this item is of continuing value to OSU's history. Sun, 01 Jan 2006 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/1811/6495 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z Strejilevich, Nora http://hdl.handle.net/1811/6475 Gender & Ethnicity Across Divides 2004 The University Archives has determined that this item is of continuing value to OSU's history. Thu, 25 May 2006 16:07:30 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/1811/6475 2006-05-25T16:07:30Z http://hdl.handle.net/1811/6474 Gender & Ethnicity Across Divides 2005 The University Archives has determined that this item is of continuing value to OSU's history. Thu, 25 May 2006 15:55:55 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/1811/6474 2006-05-25T15:55:55Z http://hdl.handle.net/1811/6473 Gender & Ethnicity Across Divides 2006 The University Archives has determined that this item is of continuing value to OSU's history. Thu, 25 May 2006 15:49:10 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/1811/6473 2006-05-25T15:49:10Z