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Tietjen, Jeanie M.

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"Unbearable Stench": Excremental Violence in Holocaust Literature.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	"Unbearable Stench": Excremental Violence in Holocaust Literature./
Author:	Tietjen, Jeanie M.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2016,
Description:	134 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 78-03(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International78-03A(E).
Subject:	Holocaust studies. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=10157902
ISBN:	9781369129199

"Unbearable Stench": Excremental Violence in Holocaust Literature.
Tietjen, Jeanie M.

"Unbearable Stench": Excremental Violence in Holocaust Literature. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2016 - 134 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 78-03(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Brandeis University, 2016.

Despite overwhelming evidence of widespread use of excremental violence in the Nazi campaign, American literary critic Terrence Des Pres is among very few scholars to discuss excrement in Holocaust testimony and literature. The concept of "excremental assault" originates with Des Pres' 1976 book-length examination of human survival in conditions of extreme oppression, The Survivor: An Anatomy of Life in the Death Camps. Devoting an entire chapter within the book's larger analysis of survivor experiences, Des Pres uses survivor testimony as well as fiction and poetry from both Nazi and Soviet camps to document ways in which the fundamental process and product of human waste served to attack, degrade, exterminate, and dehumanize. Excrement as assaultive tactic functioned systematically from capture to incarceration to murder to postmortem to make indistinguishable the human being from its own waste. By closely examining the contours of this violence---human waste mapping onto human as waste--- deeply embedded in taboo and strict convention, Des Pres formulates excremental assault as evidence of both an absolutely shattering inhumanity as well as, by his sights, unprecedented moral poise and action. This dissertation attends to the details of Des Pres' formulations, and then applies them in detail to two Holocaust writers, Tadeusz Borowski and Boris Pahor, in whose prose excremental violence is represented. Because excrement, like trauma itself, cannot be considered without the body, excrement in representation, both in Borowski's short stories as well as Pahor's Necropolis, orients discourse of trauma first and foremost in the body, containing key characteristics of traumatic narrative: first, limits where the body cannot be fully inscribed in language; second, the compulsive and repulsive nature of traumatic narrative that cannot be fully incorporated or conveyed by memory; and third, interruption of any heroic or redemptive narrative whereby suffering is saved or sanitized by the production of meaning. Then, because the body does not exist in isolation, excrement in representation substantiates the body as inter-personal, implicating political order and hierarchy. Ultimately, each writer demonstrates that representing excremental violence risks intense disgust and revulsion, endangering the very forensic witness it seeks to convey, intensifying the predicament of repulsive or unbearable knowledge.

ISBN: 9781369129199Subjects--Topical Terms:

3174188
Holocaust studies.

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