Laura LevittFor this whole issue see, https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/44290
This issue includes both my essay “Contemporary Relics” and a wonderful conversation about Jewish Objects and Jewish Affects with Jodi Eichler-Levine, Rachel B. Gross, Laura Arnold Liebman, and me.
To hear this conversation https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/the-objects-that-remain-laura-levitt/
To read this interview:
UPDATE: Now open-access at https://politicaltheology.com/healing-as-a-metaphor-an-interview-with-laura-levitt/
link to earlier version:
“When we consider criminal evidence—proof positive that terrible things happened—we often imagine their role in a courtroom. But not all evidence operates that way. Most of the tainted objects held even in police property rooms never make their way to court. In the case of the vast trove of rescued Holocaust objects held at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM), which have likewise never been to court, we often think about their role as empirical, historical evidence of the crimes of genocide perpetrated by the Nazis and their collaborators. And yet there are those intangible qualities that attract us to such objects, that draw our attention.”
Read More at Penn State University Press, Tumblr! https://pennstateuniversitypress.tumblr.com/
“Levitt’s careful attention to the scenes of her own trauma do not reveal her ‘self’ to us, her readers, however. Instead, her words initiate a harmonic resonance between the objects in (and of) her traumatic memory and the objects in (and of) other traumas, other experiences, and other wounded sites of memory and loss. In writing toward these resonances, Levitt herself is both in the story and on the banks of its flow, both the object (subject) of reflection–as in a confession–but also able to step outside the flow of the story by showing up the process of thinking and writing.” (M. Gail Hamner)
Read the full review essay: https://affecognitive.wordpress.com/2021/02/22/laura-levitt-the-objects-that-remain/?fbclid=IwAR2n812JjxHnE8UH0ufmYq8Tle_USD6xdgSys0Qt5nlVOwEyoN0X3Der3Wc
By Kali Handelman and Laura Levitt
Published on February 4, 2021
To Read the Full Interview:
To listen to this a recording of this show (about 30 minutes in): http://www.kzfr.org/broadcasts/24131
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