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Rhetorics of silence/listening and teaching trauma: Holocaust testimony in the composition classroom

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dc.contributor.authorMiller, Teva, author
dc.contributor.authorLangstraat, Lisa, advisor
dc.contributor.authorJacobi, Tobi, committee member
dc.contributor.authorAlexander, Ruth, committee member
dc.date.accessioned2022-04-15T15:26:01Z
dc.date.available2022-04-15T15:26:01Z
dc.date.issued2010
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dc.descriptionPrint version deaccessioned 2022.
dc.description.abstractMany scholars and educators who have taught Holocaust testimony and literature in their classes have offered numerous pedagogical methods to outline best practices, ethical concerns, and student engagement. While some of these methodologies are particularly instructive for the first year college composition course, most do not address the gaps or silences found in Holocaust testimony. Other pedagogical methods tend to lack the affective component that is an unavoidable part of teaching trauma texts. In this thesis, I offer a heuristic that can be used in the composition classroom to engage with Holocaust testimony. I argue that there is a need for this heuristic because it not only attends to the affective economies that are vital and inseparable from reading and writing about Holocaust testimony, but also because it re-privileges silence as a powerful rhetorical act made by both survivors and secondary witnesses. It also works to destabilize and disrupt “sentimental” student responses that tend to thwart invested critical analysis and which often lead to dehumanizing depictions of victim as well as potential misappropriations of a victim’s or survivor’s words.
dc.format.mediummasters theses
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10217/234706
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherColorado State University. Libraries
dc.relationCatalog record number (MMS ID): 991014555539703361
dc.relationPE1404 .M555 2010
dc.relation.ispartof2000-2019
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dc.subject.lcshEnglish language -- Rhetoric -- Study and teaching (Higher)
dc.subject.lcshHolocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Study and teaching (Higher)
dc.subject.lcshHeuristic
dc.titleRhetorics of silence/listening and teaching trauma: Holocaust testimony in the composition classroom
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thesis.degree.disciplineEnglish
thesis.degree.grantorColorado State University
thesis.degree.levelMasters
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Arts (M.A.)

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