Identification and Make-Believe: The Fallacies of Prosthetic Memory

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1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Introduction 1
4. The Witness to Genocide in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries 13
5. Primo Levi between the Editions 31
6. Inside and Outside the Courtroom: Witnessing the Massacres of Chinese in Japanese Occupied Malaya, Singapore, and Rabaul 49
7. Divided Memories? The Last Testimonies on Nazi Massacres in Italy 79
8. Identification and Make-Believe: The Fallacies of Prosthetic Memory 111
9. Adolf Eichmann in Jerusalem: Defendant and Witness in the Glass Booth? 129
10. The Witness’s Brew. On Imposture and Impostor Hunting 157
11. Expanding Historical Empathy: How the Holocaust is Helping Chinese Remember Atrocities of the Mao Era 181
12. Witnesses, Silence and Mimicry in Elias Khoury’s “Children of the Ghetto” 197
13. No Judges, Only Witnesses: Witnessing Genocide in the Vietnam Tribunalʼs Courtroom Setting of 1966–1967 217
14. Not Typical but Typifying: Varlam Shalamov’s “A Piece of Meat” 239
15. Witnessing as Counter-Power: Testimony and Crimes against Humanity in the Argentinian Province of Jujuy 249
16. Index 269