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I stället för en annan : Minnesplatser och vittnesretorik i Göran Rosenbergs Ett kort uppehåll på vägen från Auschwitz

Wallin Lämsä, Joni LU (2023) In Samlaren 143. p.83-103
Abstract
In the Stead of Another: Memory Places and the Rhetoric of Witnessing in Göran Rosenberg’s A Brief Stop on the Road from Auschwitz (I stället för en annan. Minnesplatser och vittnesretorik i Göran Rosenbergs Ett kort uppehåll på vägen från Auschwitz)

As the last witnesses of the Nazi genocide disappear, the question of who can speak in their stead about the horrors of the Holocaust surfaces with renewed urgency. In this article I study a mode of testimony that consists in the act of bearing witness to another person’s suffering. By elucidating the role of place in the memoir of the son of a Holocaust survivor — Göran Rosenberg’s A Brief Stop on the Road from Auschwitz (2012) — I show how the text invites the reader to approach the... (More)
In the Stead of Another: Memory Places and the Rhetoric of Witnessing in Göran Rosenberg’s A Brief Stop on the Road from Auschwitz (I stället för en annan. Minnesplatser och vittnesretorik i Göran Rosenbergs Ett kort uppehåll på vägen från Auschwitz)

As the last witnesses of the Nazi genocide disappear, the question of who can speak in their stead about the horrors of the Holocaust surfaces with renewed urgency. In this article I study a mode of testimony that consists in the act of bearing witness to another person’s suffering. By elucidating the role of place in the memoir of the son of a Holocaust survivor — Göran Rosenberg’s A Brief Stop on the Road from Auschwitz (2012) — I show how the text invites the reader to approach the trauma of the author’s father at different geographical locations. The rhetorical address of the text thereby gives shape to a community of vicarious witnesses that can attend to victims of the Holocaust beyond the ideal of immediate empathetic involvement. (Less)
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Holocaust, witnessing, memory studies
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143
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21 pages
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Svenska litteratursällskapet
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0348-6133
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Swedish
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