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Witness Literature in Byzantium

Narrating Slaves, Prisoners, and Refugees de

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Palgrave Macmillan


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New Approaches to Byzantine History and Culture

Paru le : 2021-08-06

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This book analyzes Byzantine examples of witness literature, a genre that focuses on eyewitness accounts written by slaves, prisoners, refugees, and other victims of historical atrocity. It focuses on such episodes in three nonfictional texts – John Kaminiates’ Capture of Thessaloniki (904), Eustathios of Thessaloniki’s Capture of Thessaloniki (1186), and Niketas Choniates’ History (ca. 1204–17) – and the three extant twelfth-century Komnenian novels to consider how the authors’ positions as both eyewitness and victim require an interpretive method that distinguishes witness literature from other kinds of writing about the past. Drawing on theoretical developments in the fields of Holocaust and Genocide Studies (such as Giorgio Agamben’s homo sacer and Michel Foucault’s biopolitics) and comparisons with modern examples (Elie Wiesel’s Night and Primo Levi’s If This is a Man), Witness Literature emphasizes the affective, subjective, and experiential in medieval Greek historical writing.
Pages
299 pages
Collection
New Approaches to Byzantine History and Culture
Parution
2021-08-06
Marque
Palgrave Macmillan
EAN papier
9783030788568
EAN PDF
9783030788575
Informations sur l'ebook
Nombre pages copiables
2
Nombre pages imprimables
29
Taille du fichier
6267 Ko
Prix
126,59 €
EAN EPUB
9783030788575
Informations sur l'ebook
Nombre pages copiables
2
Nombre pages imprimables
29
Taille du fichier
625 Ko
Prix
126,59 €

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