The ethics of silence : reading the lover's discourse in contemporary trauma narratives

• Main Author: Goh, Pei Hua
• Other Authors: Yong Wern Mei
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: DRNTU::Humanities
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/70269
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

In Testimony, Felman and Laub contend that a historical and collective trauma like the Holocaust cannot be represented, and cannot be understood, because it lacks a frame of reference. Indeed, a frame of reference for such a traumatic experience does not, and cannot, exist in the first place. Simila...