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