The 9/11 attacks have come to epitomize the entanglement of intimate vulnerability and virtual spectacle that is typical of the globalized present. Working with concepts of trauma, mediation, and materiality, this book offers radically new interpretive frames for interrogating representations of the attacks. Interconnections between clinical pathology, cultural trauma, and political aesthetics lay the foundations for exploring texts by Foer, Spiegelman, DeLillo, and Gibson. Exploring how contemporary trauma studies can take into account the digitization and virtuality of present-day realities,…mehr
The 9/11 attacks have come to epitomize the entanglement of intimate vulnerability and virtual spectacle that is typical of the globalized present. Working with concepts of trauma, mediation, and materiality, this book offers radically new interpretive frames for interrogating representations of the attacks. Interconnections between clinical pathology, cultural trauma, and political aesthetics lay the foundations for exploring texts by Foer, Spiegelman, DeLillo, and Gibson. Exploring how contemporary trauma studies can take into account the digitization and virtuality of present-day realities, this book establishes a contemporary ethics of witnessing terror.
Katharina Donn is a lecturer and postdoctoral fellow at the University of Augsburg, Germany, focusing on trauma and memory in U.S.-American literature, and has held visiting fellowships at the Eccles Centre for American Studies, the Institute of Advanced Studies at University College London, and a visiting professorship at the University of Texas at Austin.
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Table of Contents: Abbreviations Acknowledgements Introduction: From Memory to Mediation. Towards a Trauma Theory of the Digitized Present 1 The Unspeakability Thesis Reconsidered Foreign Bodies: Deconstructing the Freudian Legacy (Im) Possibilities of Representation: Virtual Trauma and the Real Trauma Literature beyond Unspeakability: A Tentative Poetics 2 The Ethics of Form: Trauma Literature After 9/11 From the Frame to Critique: Discursive Power in a Context of Cultural Trauma Vulnerability as Spectacle? Figuring the Fall Encountering the Face of the Other: Alterity after Trauma 3 Detouring the Singularity of Trauma: Jonathan Safran Foer's Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close Records to be made? Silence and Testimony Historical and Symbolic Archives: Meandering towards the Present Absence of 9/11 9/11 Transnationalized? 4 "Icons of a More Innocent Age"? Art Spiegelman's In the Shadow of No Towers "I never Loved those Arrogant Boxes": Enacting Trauma in Comix Metamorphosing Trauma: 9/11 as the Grotesque Against the End of Irony: Trauma as Resistance 5 Precarious Bodies: Don DeLillo's Falling Man Unstable Sociality: Embodied Patterns of Interconnectedness The Ethics of Witnessing Terror: Falling into Perception Resisting Totality: Unsettled Signification and the Anti-Spectacular 6 Trauma in a Virtual World: William Gibson's Pattern Recognition Realities of Trauma, the Trauma of Reality: Witnessing as Pattern Recognition The 'Footage:' Video Art and the Negative Sublime Affect and Globalization: Histories of Violence and Post-Traumatic Encounters 7 Conclusion: Re-Situating the Subject in the Aftermath of Trauma
Table of Contents: Abbreviations Acknowledgements Introduction: From Memory to Mediation. Towards a Trauma Theory of the Digitized Present 1 The Unspeakability Thesis Reconsidered Foreign Bodies: Deconstructing the Freudian Legacy (Im) Possibilities of Representation: Virtual Trauma and the Real Trauma Literature beyond Unspeakability: A Tentative Poetics 2 The Ethics of Form: Trauma Literature After 9/11 From the Frame to Critique: Discursive Power in a Context of Cultural Trauma Vulnerability as Spectacle? Figuring the Fall Encountering the Face of the Other: Alterity after Trauma 3 Detouring the Singularity of Trauma: Jonathan Safran Foer's Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close Records to be made? Silence and Testimony Historical and Symbolic Archives: Meandering towards the Present Absence of 9/11 9/11 Transnationalized? 4 "Icons of a More Innocent Age"? Art Spiegelman's In the Shadow of No Towers "I never Loved those Arrogant Boxes": Enacting Trauma in Comix Metamorphosing Trauma: 9/11 as the Grotesque Against the End of Irony: Trauma as Resistance 5 Precarious Bodies: Don DeLillo's Falling Man Unstable Sociality: Embodied Patterns of Interconnectedness The Ethics of Witnessing Terror: Falling into Perception Resisting Totality: Unsettled Signification and the Anti-Spectacular 6 Trauma in a Virtual World: William Gibson's Pattern Recognition Realities of Trauma, the Trauma of Reality: Witnessing as Pattern Recognition The 'Footage:' Video Art and the Negative Sublime Affect and Globalization: Histories of Violence and Post-Traumatic Encounters 7 Conclusion: Re-Situating the Subject in the Aftermath of Trauma
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