Katharina Donn

A Poetics of Trauma after 9/11 (eBook, PDF)

Representing Trauma in a Digitized Present

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 226
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Oktober 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317308621
• Artikelnr.: 46758345

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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