Against the Unspeakable

Against the Unspeakable
Author: Naomi Mandel
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Total Pages: 300
Release: 2006
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780813925813


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In Against the Unspeakable, Naomi Mandel offers a paradigm of reading that will enable the crucial work on comparative atrocities and the representation of suffering to move beyond the impasse of "unspeakability." Discussing a variety of texts such as Toni Morrison's Beloved, Steven Spielburg's Schindler's List, and William Styron's Confessions of Nat Turner, Mandel asks: What does the evocation of the limits of language enable writers, authors, and critics to do?