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Whose emotion? Encountering Holocaust Survivors' Testimonies
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ABSTRACT
According to John Durham Peters a witnesses' status in general is constituted through a specific ambiguity that is related to the "fragility of witnessing". 1 To describe this fragility Peters carves out three dimensions of the witness: first the dimension of the agent bearing witness, secondly the text of the...
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