Haunted Narratives

Life Writing in an Age of Trauma
Herausgeber: Rippl, Gabriele; Steffen, Therese; Sutrop, Margit; Kirss, Tiina; Schweighauser, Philipp

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Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 360
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. März 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 159mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 729g
• ISBN-13: 9781442646018
• ISBN-10: 1442646012
• Artikelnr.: 37055922

Autorenporträt

Edited by Gabriele Rippl, Philipp Schweighauser, Tiina Kirss, Margit Sutrop, and Therese Steffen

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Life Writing in an Age of Trauma
Gabriele Rippl (University of Bern)/Philipp Schweighauser  (University of
Basel)/Therese Steffen (University of Basel)
I. Life Writing and Trauma: Theorizing the Vicissitudes of Representing
Violence
1. Seeing Ghosts: Theorizing Haunting in Literary Texts - Tiina Kirss
(University of Tartu)
2. Trauma and Utopia: Benjamin, Adorno, and Elie Wiesel's Night - Philipp
Schweighauser (University of Basel)
II. Auto/biographies as Trauma Narratives
3. Richard Wollheim's Germs: Life Writing as Therapy, Despite Theory -
Julia Straub (University of Bern)
4. Writing Childhood, Writing Lack - Maarja Hollo (Estonian Literary
Museum)
5. Loquacious Silences: Vikram Seth's Two Lives and the German Language -
Nora Anna Escherle (University of Bern)
6. Unsayable or Merely Unsaid? - Eneken Laanes (Estonian Academy of
Sciences)
7. Voicing Trauma in the Deportation Narratives of Baltic Women - Leena
Kurvet-Käosaar (Tallinn University)
8. Trauma Narratives and National Identity - Annie Cottier (University of
Bern)
III. 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 (University of Konstanz)
10. Aspects of Post-Imperial Constructions of Nationhood - Eva Rein
(University of Tartu)
11. Anecdotalization of Memory in Jaan Kross' Paigallend - Eneken Laanes
(Estonian Academy of Sciences)
12. Meddling with Memory--Negating Grand Narratives - Nora Anna Escherle
(University of Bern)
13. Fighting Fear with Writing: Christa Wolf`s Kindheitsmuster and Ene
Mihkelson's Ahasveeruse uni (The Sleep of Ahasuerus) - Aija Sakova (Tartu
University)
14. The Stigma of the Autobiographical - Julia Straub (University of Bern)
15. The Search for the Lost Parent in Joy Kogawa's Obasan and Ene
Mihkelson's Ahasveeruse uni (The Sleep of Ahasuerus) - Eva Rein (University
of Tartu)
16. Making the Silence Speak: A Critical Discussion of Trauma Transmission
and Identity Formation - Stefanie Preuss (University of Konstanz)
IV. Fictions of Loss and Trauma
17. (Re-)Visions of the Buried Self: Childhood Trauma and Self-Narration in
Margaret Atwood's Cat's Eye - Christa Schönfelder (University of Zurich)
18. Grasping Patterns of Violence - Aija Sakova (Tartu University)
19. Nostalgia and Redemption in Bernard Kangro's Joonatan-Novels - Maarja
Hollo (Estonian Literary Museum)
20. Renegotiations of Longing and Belonging: Exile, Memory and Nostalgia -
Christa Schönfelder (University of Zurich)
21. Haunted Whispers from the Footnotes: Life Writing in Raj Kamal Jha's
Fireproof - Annie Cottier (University of Bern)
22. What Only Fiction Can Do - Leena Kurvet-Käosaar (Tallinn University)
Afterword: Ethical and Political Aspects of Life Writing and Remembering -
Margit Sutrop (University of Tartu)