Haunted narratives : life writing in an age of trauma /
edited by Gabriele Rippl [and others.
- Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, (c)2013.
- 1 online resource (vii, 352 pages)
Includes bibliographies and index.
Introduction: Life Writing in an Age of Trauma / Part One: Life Writing and Trauma: Theorizing the Vicissitudes of Representing Violence. 1 Seeing Ghosts: Theorizing Haunting in Literary Texts / 2 Trauma and Utopia: Benjamin, Adorno, and Elie Wiesel's / Gabriele Rippl, Philipp Schweighauser, and Therese Steffen -- Tiina Kirss -- 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 / 10 Aspects of Post-Imperial Constructions of Nationhood / 11 Anecdotalization of Memory in Jaan Kross's Paigallend / 12 Meddling with Memory -- Negating Grand Narratives / 13 Fighting Fear with Writing: Christa Wolf's Kindheitsmuster and Ene Mihkelson's Ahasveeruse uni (The Sleep of Ahasuerus) / 14 The Stigma of the Autobiographical / 15 The Search for the Lost Parent in Joy Kogawa's Obasan and Ene Mihkelson's Ahasveeruse uni (The Sleep of Ahasuerus) / 16 Making the Silence Speak: A Critical Discussion of Trauma Transmission and Identity Formation / Stefanie Preuss -- Eva Rein -- Eneken Laanes -- Nora Anna Escherle -- Aija Sakova -- Julia Straub -- Eva Rein -- 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.
9781442664197
Autobiography. Biography as a literary form. Literature, Modern--History and criticism.--20th century Autobiography in literature. Biography in literature. Psychic trauma in literature. Memory in literature. Biographical fiction--History and criticism.--20th century