Preface / Acknowledgments -- 1. The Menchu Effect: Strategic Lies and Approximate Truths in Texts of Witness / Ana Douglass -- 2. Excessive Witnessing: The Ethical as Temptation / Joseba Zulaika -- 3. Witness in the Wilderness: The Tropical Tryst of Claude Levi-Strauss and Theodore Roosevelt / William A. Douglass -- 4. An All White Jury: Judging Citizenship in the Simpson Criminal Trial / Cindy Patton -- 5. Poetry, Witness, Feminism / Harriet Davidson -- 6. Poetic Witness: Writing the Real / Thomas A. Vogler -- 7. The Burning Babe: Children, Film Narrative, and the Figures of Historical Witness / Tyrus Miller -- 8. The Limits of Vision: Hiroshima Mon Amour and the Subversion of Representation / Kyo Maclear -- 9. Ex/propriating Survivor Experience, or Auschwitz "after" Lyotard / Karyn Ball -- 10. Between History and Memory: The Voice of the Eyewitness / James E. Young.