A study of the emergent field of witness literature across fiction, nonfiction, memoir, journalism and survivor testimony, this book examines writing from the Cambodian Genocide, the Sri Lankan civil war and the borderscapes of honour-based violence. Drawing on literary analysis, biopolitics, border aesthetics and testimony studies, this book examines the place of the fictive in writings of traumatic events; it takes up the call to expand Western understanding of the normatively human by focusing on work that bears witness from sites of compromised belonging; and shows how witness literature…mehr
A study of the emergent field of witness literature across fiction, nonfiction, memoir, journalism and survivor testimony, this book examines writing from the Cambodian Genocide, the Sri Lankan civil war and the borderscapes of honour-based violence. Drawing on literary analysis, biopolitics, border aesthetics and testimony studies, this book examines the place of the fictive in writings of traumatic events; it takes up the call to expand Western understanding of the normatively human by focusing on work that bears witness from sites of compromised belonging; and shows how witness literature by migrant subjects marks an intervention in Western readings of trauma"- Provided by publisher.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Minoli Salgado is Professor of International Writing at Manchester Metropolitan University. Her previous publications include the critical monograph, Writing Sri Lanka: Literature, Resistance and the Politics of Place (2006), the novel, A Little Dust on the Eyes (2014) and a book of narrative non-fiction, Twelve Cries from Home: In Search of Sri Lanka's Disappeared (2022).
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction: Witness Literature - Politics, Poetics, Ethics Bearing Witness, Distant Others Migrant Poetics: Border Witnessing and Double Agency Witness Literature, Contested Truths Part One: Memorialising the Cambodian Genocide I The unnamed dead II Through the gate with Francois Bizot III Border controls: the witness and the archive The New World of Children of Cambodia's Killing Fields IV The open time of trauma: Loung Ung and Chanrithy Him V Imaginary witnesses: Madeleine Thien and Vaddey Ratner Part Two: Sri Lanka's 'War Without Witness' I Bringing hidden things to light II Life writing Authenticating autobiographies: Shobasakthi and Niromi De Soyza III Memoried truths Affect and the interhuman: Ajith Boyagoda and Anuk Arudpragasam IV Magical thinking: Michael Ondaatje's 'long distance gaze' V Spectral truths Prosopopoeia and prophecy: Saktirani and Lasantha Wickrematunge Shehan Karunatilaka's chats with the dead Part Three: Honour and the Shame of Unbelonging I Public secrets False witness: a brief note Transgressive witnessing II The public and private faces of honour-based violence: Sanam Maher and Lene Wold III Migrancy and the borders of belonging: Nadeem Aslam and Elif Shafak IV Salman Rushdie's rhetoric of protest
Introduction: Witness Literature - Politics, Poetics, Ethics Bearing Witness, Distant Others Migrant Poetics: Border Witnessing and Double Agency Witness Literature, Contested Truths Part One: Memorialising the Cambodian Genocide I The unnamed dead II Through the gate with Francois Bizot III Border controls: the witness and the archive The New World of Children of Cambodia's Killing Fields IV The open time of trauma: Loung Ung and Chanrithy Him V Imaginary witnesses: Madeleine Thien and Vaddey Ratner Part Two: Sri Lanka's 'War Without Witness' I Bringing hidden things to light II Life writing Authenticating autobiographies: Shobasakthi and Niromi De Soyza III Memoried truths Affect and the interhuman: Ajith Boyagoda and Anuk Arudpragasam IV Magical thinking: Michael Ondaatje's 'long distance gaze' V Spectral truths Prosopopoeia and prophecy: Saktirani and Lasantha Wickrematunge Shehan Karunatilaka's chats with the dead Part Three: Honour and the Shame of Unbelonging I Public secrets False witness: a brief note Transgressive witnessing II The public and private faces of honour-based violence: Sanam Maher and Lene Wold III Migrancy and the borders of belonging: Nadeem Aslam and Elif Shafak IV Salman Rushdie's rhetoric of protest
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