{"product_id":"rage-is-the-subtext-susan-derwin-9780814252321","title":"Rage Is the Subtext: Readings in Holocaust Literature and Film","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eRage Is the Subtext\u003c\/i\u003e charts the internal shifts of Holocaust survivors who tell their stories of suffering, loss, and endurance. Susan Derwin locates the healing effect of literary testimony in its capacity to represent the reactions of survivors to traumatic experience, while concealing other more unsettling responses from view. Beneath the explicit concerns of works by Primo Levi, Saul Friedl nder, Binjamin Wilkomirski, Imre Kert sz and Liliana Cavani, Derwin uncovers unspoken reserves of rage, which then become legible as formal properties of the text.\u003c\/p\u003e Drawing upon the analytic writings of D. W. Winnicott, Jean Am ry, and others, Derwin identifies the volatile affect encrypted in testimonial narrative with experiences of social abandonment. She argues that, after liberation, many survivors were beset by an irresolvable ambivalence: on one side, they bitterly blamed their communities for abandoning them during the Holocaust; on the other, they desperately needed reconciliation with those communities in order to heal. For this reason, bearing witness became a crucial activity that contained and metabolized the survivor's rage so that an engaged life could become possible.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Susan Derwin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 081425232X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780814252321\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Ohio State University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/29\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 130\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.44lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.31d","brand":"Susan Derwin","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44761045729535,"sku":"9780814252321","price":23.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_34ecdedf-ef5e-45a8-b070-a6eb240bff79.jpg?v=1706680219","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/rage-is-the-subtext-susan-derwin-9780814252321","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}