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"Men's Political Representation" published on by Oxford University Press.

The perspectives of Paul Celan, Primo Levi, & Sarah Kofman, all of whom experienced the Holocaust & later committed suicide, are used to describe the relationship between silence, voice, & representation on the theme of the Holocaust. Celan contended that language fails humans in understanding the Holocaust, although language itself survived, & was marked by the event. His poetry speaks to a possible relation to an Other. For Levi, the you that listens to stories of the Holocaust is silent & carries the potential of refusing to grant meaning to words. Those who experienced the Holocaust, the utter witnesses, have been annihilated, so the survivors can only try to write from their falling silent, even if it means speaking in the names of the annihilated. Kofman felt that it was impossible to narrate a true history of Auschwitz, because the narrator is absent. The duty remains to speak & write, but to write at the thresholds of language, places of difference between silence & voice. M. Pflum

After discussing the relationship between "descriptive" & "substantive" representation, explored is whether increases in the former (the actual number of representatives) have led to increases in the latter (the ability to represent constituent interests) for African Americans in GA. The state's political culture from the 1960s until the end of the 20th century is described, focusing on elections & office holding. Events that led to increased black representation in the state general assembly are identified & the creation of the Georgia Legislative Black Caucus is examined. Data from house & senate journals & the website of the general assembly are used to analyze African American committee membership & chairpersonship, 1979-2000, as well as roll-call voting patterns during the 1990s; comparisons are drawn between the voting patterns of black & white Republicans & Democrats on a wide range of general & race-related issues. References. K. Hyatt Stewart

After discussing the relationship between "descriptive" & "substantive" representation, explored is whether increases in the former (the actual number of representatives) have led to increases in the latter (the ability to represent constituent interests) for African Americans in GA. The state's political culture from the 1960s until the end of the 20th century is described, focusing on elections & office holding. Events that led to increased black representation in the state general assembly are identified & the creation of the Georgia Legislative Black Caucus is examined. Data from house & senate journals & the website of the general assembly are used to analyze African American committee membership & chairpersonship, 1979-2000, as well as roll-call voting patterns during the 1990s; comparisons are drawn between the voting patterns of black & white Republicans & Democrats on a wide range of general & race-related issues. References. K. Hyatt Stewart