No One's Witness: A Monstrous Poetics

by Rachel Zolf and Syd Zolf

Book Overview

In No One's Witness Syd Zolf activates the last three lines of a poem by Jewish Nazi holocaust survivor Paul Celan--"No one / bears witness for the / witness"--to theorize the poetics and im/possibility of witnessing. Drawing on black studies, continental philosophy, queer theory, experimental poetics, and work by several writers and artists, Zolf asks what it means to witness from the excessive, incalculable position of No One. In a fragmentary...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1478014245
• ISBN13: 9781478014249
• Release Date: August 2021
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"