The Future of Trauma Theory (eBook, ePUB)

Contemporary Literary and Cultural Criticism
Redaktion: Buelens, Gert; Eaglestone, Robert; Durrant, Samuel

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Whilst the term 'trauma' is currently dominating literary and theoretical discourse, this book is designed to explore the future of trauma theory. With contributions from an international selection of leading critics and thinkers from the US and Europe, including Judith Butler, Cathy Caruth and Dominick LaCapra.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Oktober 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135053093
• Artikelnr.: 39943062

Autorenporträt

Gert Buelens is Professor of English at Ghent University, and Director of LITRA, the Centre for Literature and Trauma there. Sam Durrant is Senior Lecturer in Postcolonial Literature at the University of Leeds. Robert Eaglestone is Professor of Contemporary Literature and Thought at Royal Holloway, University of London, and Director of the Holocaust Research Centre there.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface: Beyond Tancred and Clorinda: Trauma Studies for Implicated Subjects, Michael Rothberg Introduction Part 1: History and Culture Chapter 1: Knowledge, 'Afterwardsness' and the future of Trauma theory, Robert Eaglestone Chapter 2: Fascism and the Sacred: Sites of Inquiry after (or along with) Trauma, Dominick LaCapra Chapter 3: Beyond Eurocentrism: Trauma Theory in the Global Age, Stef Craps Chapter 4: Affect, Body, Place: Trauma Theory in the World, Ananya Jahanara Kabir Chapter 5: Trauma Ties: Chiasmus and Community in Lebanese Civil War Literature, Nouri Gana Part 2: Politics and Subjectivity Chapter 7: That which you are denying us': Refugees, Rights and Writing in Arendt, Lyndsey Stonebridge Chapter 8: Time, personhood, politics, Jenny Edkins Chapter 9: The Biopolitics of Trauma, Pieter Vermeulen Chapter 10: Future Shock: Science Fiction and the Trauma Paradigm, Roger Luckhurst