Documents of Urgency: Postwar Responses to Grave Injustice- [electronic resource]
Documents of Urgency: Postwar Responses to Grave Injustice- [electronic resource]
- 자료유형
- 학위논문파일 국외
- 최종처리일시
- 20240214101640
- ISBN
- 9798380622981
- DDC
- 809
- 서명/저자
- Documents of Urgency: Postwar Responses to Grave Injustice - [electronic resource]
- 발행사항
- [S.l.]: : New York University., 2023
- 발행사항
- Ann Arbor : : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses,, 2023
- 형태사항
- 1 online resource(249 p.)
- 주기사항
- Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 85-04, Section: A.
- 주기사항
- Advisor: Dopico, Ana.
- 학위논문주기
- Thesis (Ph.D.)--New York University, 2023.
- 사용제한주기
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- 초록/해제
- 요약In this dissertation, I define documents of urgency as works which bear witness to grave injustice and demand an immediate response. I examine three of the most compelling examples of such works from the period shortly after World War II: Rodolfo Walsh's Operacion Masacre (1957), Hannah Arendt's Eichmann in Jerusalem (1963), and James Baldwin's The Fire Next Time (1963). Because each of these works documents an unfolding situation, I read them chronistically, in relation to their real, temporally bound circumstances, as well as comparatively, for the themes and problems they share. I show the methods the writers use to depict the situations they are confronting, and I highlight how they tread in despair while providing a possibility that conditions might improve-if and only if action is taken. In each close reading, an authorial voice with high personal stakes in the matter comes to terms with grave injustice. These works take us into hell and back, pointing us toward a future worth fighting for. They are also paradoxical in their longevity: despite calling for urgent response to temporally specific injustices, these texts have continued to attract passionate interest long after their production. The final section of each chapter foregrounds related documentary films which renew the call for action in response to latter-day or lingering injustices. In a time that is consistently represented as one of chronic and ongoing crises, this dissertation offers a study of how hopeful interventions work.
- 일반주제명
- Comparative literature.
- 일반주제명
- Film studies.
- 일반주제명
- Literature.
- 키워드
- Grave injustice
- 기타저자
- New York University Comparative Literature
- 기본자료저록
- Dissertations Abstracts International. 85-04A.
- 기본자료저록
- Dissertation Abstract International
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