Researcher ORCID Identifier
0000-0001-7399-901X
Graduation Year
2021
Document Type
Open Access Senior Thesis
Degree Name
Bachelor of Arts
Department
Humanities: Interdisciplinary Studies in Culture
Reader 1
Kevin Vennemann
Reader 2
Myriam J.A. Chancy
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2021 Anastasia A Kourotchkina
Abstract
This thesis examines the process of witnessing in Cynthia Ozick’s novella Rosa as a crucial part of living in the aftermath of Holocaust. By using Kelly Oliver’s concept of witnessing, I approach the process of witnessing trauma as the process of restoring subjectivity. As my analysis of Ozick’s Rosa shows, what prevents both Rosa and those around her to bear witness to trauma is the failure to imagine oneself as implicated in the traumas of the other. I conclude that the tendency to ignore the essential connection and dependence that exists between the Self and the other is enabled by the construction of difference.
Recommended Citation
Kourotchkina, Anastasia, "WITNESSING DIFFERENCE: AN EXPLORATION OF LIVING IN THE AFTERMATH OF TRAUMA IN POST-HOLOCAUST AMERICA IN CYNTHIA OZICK’S “ROSA”" (2021). Scripps Senior Theses. 1908.
https://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/1908
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