'A perverse quest for meaning': false witness in Vietnam and beyond. Issue 5 (3rd September 2017)
- Record Type:
- Journal Article
- Title:
- 'A perverse quest for meaning': false witness in Vietnam and beyond. Issue 5 (3rd September 2017)
- Main Title:
- 'A perverse quest for meaning': false witness in Vietnam and beyond
- Authors:
- Caruth, Cathy
- Abstract:
- Abstract: This essay interprets Robert Jay Lifton's writing on Vietnam veterans as a thinking of history in terms of 'false witness'. Lifton conceives of a form of history that perpetuates its own erasure and of a new form of witness that emerges from this very annihilation.
- Is Part Of:
- Continuum. Volume 31:Issue 5(2017)
- Journal:
- Continuum
- Issue:
- Volume 31:Issue 5(2017)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 31, Issue 5 (2017)
- Year:
- 2017
- Volume:
- 31
- Issue:
- 5
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2017-0031-0005-0000
- Page Start:
- 610
- Page End:
- 618
- Publication Date:
- 2017-09-03
- Subjects:
- Motion pictures -- Australia -- Periodicals
Broadcasting -- Australia -- Periodicals
Mass media -- Periodicals
306.05 - Journal URLs:
- http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/ccon20/current ↗
http://www.tandfonline.com/ ↗ - DOI:
- 10.1080/10304312.2017.1357333 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 1030-4312
- Deposit Type:
- Legaldeposit
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