Theaters of Justice: Judging, Staging, and Working Through in Arendt, Brecht, and Delbo

232 Pages·2010·1.17 MB·English

by  Yasco Horsman

theaters of justice

Cultural Memory
in
the
Present
Mieke Bal and Hent de Vries, Editors

TheaTers of JusTice
Judging, Staging, and Working Through
in Arendt, Brecht, and Delbo
Yasco horsman
stanford university press
stanford, california
stanford university Press
stanford, california
© 2011 by the Board of Trustees of the Leland stanford Junior university.
all rights reserved.
No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any
means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording, or in
any information storage or retrieval system without the prior written permission
of stanford university Press.
Printed in the united states of america on acid-free, archival-quality paper
Library of congress cataloging-in-Publication Data
horsman, Yasco.
Theaters of justice : judging, staging, and working through in arendt, Brecht,
and Delbo / Yasco horsman.
p. cm.
includes bibliographical references and index.
isBN 978-0-8047-7031-6 (cloth : alk. paper) — isBN 978-0-8047-7032-3
(pbk. : alk. paper)
1. holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature. 2. Trials in literature. 3. Justice
in literature. 4. arendt, hannah, 1906–1975. eichmann in Jerusalem. 5. Brecht,
Bertolt, 1898-1956. Massnahme. 6. Delbo, charlotte—criticism and interpreta-
tion. 7. Psychoanalysis and literature. i. Title.
PN56.h55 h687
809'.93358405318—dc22
2010020247
Typeset by Thompson Type in 11/13.5 Garamond
For Hanneke

Contents
Acknowledgments xi
introduction:
coming to Terms with the Past:
Trial, Therapy, and the Theater 1
1 arendt’s Laughter:
Theatricality, Pedagogy, and comedy
in Eichmann in Jerusalem 15
2 founding a Nation, healing a Wound:
on crimes against humanity 46
3 a cry for Justice:
charlotte Delbo’s Auschwitz and After
and Days and Memory 63
4 Brecht on Trial:
The courtroom, the Theater,
and The Measures Taken 91
conclusion:
Judging, staging, and Working Through 133
Notes 143
Bibliography 185
Index 201
Cultural Memory in the Present 213