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- Title: Credible Witness: Identity, Refuge and Hospitality.
- Author : Borderlands
- Release Date : January 01, 2008
- Genre: Reference,Books,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 336 KB
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Introduction At an archaeological dig in Northern Greece, Alexander Karagy tells a group of Macedonian children to 'uncover the bands of your history through the witnesses' (Wertenbaker 2002: 185). In the maelstrom of 21st century transnational circulation of people, history, and culture, Timberlake Wertenbaker's play Credible Witness presses us to consider who can bear witness to cherished and buried histories. This article uses Wertenbaker's play to examine questions of refugee representation and identity and addresses these issues at two interlocking levels. First, at the level of material questions about what language, speech and embodied evidence comprise credible testimony to acts of interpersonal violence that defy comprehension, and evoke fear, horror, anger, and revenge, and second in relation to the ways we witness and address violence and trauma rooted in national memory, and played out in contemporary nation-state politics. What witnessing, testimonies, and evidence count as authentic? What are we able to hear when our frames of comprehension are impoverished by demands for unambiguous personal names, territorial designations, historical narratives and embodied evidence? How can unspeakable violence be spoken, and what of the names of forebears and nations negligently, purposefully and thuggishly suppressed in the making of modern states and nationalisms?
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