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Ricoeur also rehearses the arguments of Mink, White and others in the second part of his Time and Narrative, vol 1, trans, K. McLaughlin and D. Pellauer, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1984 (from the French 1983). The section is entitled ‘History and Narrative’, pp. 91f
Ricoeur elaborates on this notion of refiguration and the three forms of mimesis in the three volumes of Time and Narrative (especially vol 3) and again in various chapters of From Text to Action, Northwestern University Press, Evanston, 1991.
See my own discussion of these themes in On Stories, especially part 2, pp. 14–65.
See Lawrence Langer, Holocaust Testimonies: The Ruins of Memory, Yale University Press, New Haven, 1991; and Shoshana Felman and Dori Laub, Testimony: Crises of Witnessing in Literature, Psychoanalysis and History, Routledge, London and New York, 1992. See also here Ricoeur’s insightful comments on the question of holocaust memories and testimonies in his “Conclusions” to volume three of Time and Narrative, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1988, pp. 241f; and again in his subsequent major work, Memory, History, Forgetting, University of Chicago Press, 2005, where Ricoeur discusses the notoriously difficult issues of blocked memory, truncated history and pardon. For a more explicitly political analysis of these same issues, see Mark Osiel, Mass Atrocity, Collective Memory and the Law, Transaction Publishers, New Brunswick, USA; and Tony Judt, Postwar: A History of Europe since 1945, Penguin, 2005, especially the final chapter on modern European memories and memorials of the holocaust.
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Kearney, R. Book Symposium. Hum Stud 29, 477–490 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10746-007-9040-2
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