听众在哪里?大屠杀幸存者的见证

IF 1 2区 社会学 Q3 INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
G. Shafir
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摘要本文对大屠杀幸存者对自己的经历长期沉默的两种解释提出质疑。第一个突出了极端创伤的心理障碍,这些障碍使幸存者与他或她的社会环境不同。第二个重点是语言障碍——语言本身的局限性——以充分表达创伤的经历及其产生的情感。作者证明,沉默之后并没有说话,因为见证的历史由三个时期组成——第二次世界大战后大屠杀后的大量见证、暂停和20世纪70年代的再次出现——他们认为,大屠杀幸存者见证的最有力障碍是没有听众。因此,对大屠杀见证的研究不应该是幸存者所谓的“沉默”,而应该是世界的矛盾和冷漠,世界才姗姗来迟地开始倾听他们的声音。
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Where were the listeners? Witnessing among Holocaust survivors
Abstract This article questions two explanations given to Holocaust survivors’ prolonged silence about their experiences. The first highlights psychological impediments from the extreme trauma that set the survivor apart from his or her social environment. The second focuses on linguistic barriers—the limits of language itself—to adequately express the experience of the trauma and the emotions it generated. The author demonstrates that silence was not followed by speaking, as the history of witnessing consists of three periods—an outpouring of post-Holocaust witnessing in the immediate wake of World War II, its abeyance, and reemergence in the 1970s—to argue that the most potent obstacle to witnessing by Holocaust survivors was the absence of listeners. The study of Holocaust witnessing, consequently, should not be the so-called “silence” of the survivor, but the ambivalence and indifference of the world, which only belatedly began to listen to them.
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