Shoah, testimony and the new artistic representations in the contemporaneity

• Grant number: 12/10610-8
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships abroad - Research Internship - Post-doctor
• Start date: September 01, 2012
• End date: June 30, 2013
• Field of knowledge: Linguistics, Literature and Arts - Literature - Comparative Literature
• Principal Investigator: Márcio Orlando Seligmann-Silva
• Grantee: Jacques Fux
• Supervisor: Susan Suleiman
• Host Institution: Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem (IEL). Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Campinas , SP, Brazil
• Institution abroad: Harvard University, Cambridge, United States
• Associated to the scholarship: 11/51497-7 - Testimony and Shoah in Georges Perec's work, BP.PD

Abstract

This research intends to deepen the study of the Shoah and the testimonies of other orders in the contemporaneity. After almost seventy years since the end of World War II and after the death of almost all survivors of the Shoah, it's becoming more and more important to study and to think about the new relations, visions and representations that the generations after the primary testimony are constructing. "After the testimony era" we can find many writings, films and reports from the survivors' offspring as well as from people who were deeply touched by the Shoah. Therefore, this work proposes researching new kinds of testimonies, new artistically and culturally representations of Shoah and other works that shed new light on the Shoah. (AU)