Haunted narratives : life writing in an age of trauma / edited by Gabriele Rippl [and others.
Material type: TextPublication details: Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, (c)2013.Description: 1 online resource (vii, 352 pages)Content type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9781442664197
- PN56 .H386 2013
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Includes bibliographies and index.
Introduction: Life Writing in an Age of Trauma / Gabriele Rippl, Philipp Schweighauser, and Therese Steffen -- Part One: Life Writing and Trauma: Theorizing the Vicissitudes of Representing Violence. 1 Seeing Ghosts: Theorizing Haunting in Literary Texts / Tiina Kirss -- 2 Trauma and Utopia: Benjamin, Adorno, and Elie Wiesel's / Night Philipp Schweighauser.
Part Three: Limit-cases: Exploring the Limits of Telling Pain. 9 "Metaphors for the Scots Today": History and National Identity in Scottish Drama after 1945 / Stefanie Preuss -- 10 Aspects of Post-Imperial Constructions of Nationhood / Eva Rein -- 11 Anecdotalization of Memory in Jaan Kross's Paigallend / Eneken Laanes -- 12 Meddling with Memory -- Negating Grand Narratives / Nora Anna Escherle -- 13 Fighting Fear with Writing: Christa Wolf's Kindheitsmuster and Ene Mihkelson's Ahasveeruse uni (The Sleep of Ahasuerus) / Aija Sakova -- 14 The Stigma of the Autobiographical / Julia Straub -- 15 The Search for the Lost Parent in Joy Kogawa's Obasan and Ene Mihkelson's Ahasveeruse uni (The Sleep of Ahasuerus) / Eva Rein -- 16 Making the Silence Speak: A Critical Discussion of Trauma Transmission and Identity Formation / Stefanie Preuss.
Exploring life writing from a variety of cultural contexts, Haunted Narratives provides new insights into how individuals and communities across time and space deal with traumatic experiences and haunting memories.
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