Format:
1 Online-Ressource (1 online resource (vii, 352 p.))
ISBN:
9781442664197
Content:
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
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Introduction: Life Writing in an Age of Trauma / Gabriele Rippl, Philipp Schweighauser, and Therese Steffen -- Part One: Life Writing and Trauma: Theorizing the Vicissitudes of Representing Violence. 1 Seeing Ghosts: Theorizing Haunting in Literary Texts / Tiina Kirss -- 2 Trauma and Utopia: Benjamin, Adorno, and Elie Wiesel's / Night Philipp Schweighauser
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Part Three: 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 -- 10 Aspects of Post-Imperial Constructions of Nationhood / Eva Rein -- 11 Anecdotalization of Memory in Jaan Kross's Paigallend / Eneken Laanes -- 12 Meddling with Memory -- Negating Grand Narratives / Nora Anna Escherle -- 13 Fighting Fear with Writing: Christa Wolf's Kindheitsmuster and Ene Mihkelson's Ahasveeruse uni (The Sleep of Ahasuerus) / Aija Sakova -- 14 The Stigma of the Autobiographical / Julia Straub -- 15 The Search for the Lost Parent in Joy Kogawa's Obasan and Ene Mihkelson's Ahasveeruse uni (The Sleep of Ahasuerus) / Eva Rein -- 16 Making the Silence Speak: A Critical Discussion of Trauma Transmission and Identity Formation / Stefanie Preuss
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Haunted narratives
Language:
English
Subjects:
Comparative Studies. Non-European Languages/Literatures
Keywords:
Literatur
;
Biografie
;
Autobiografie
;
Psychisches Trauma
;
Erinnerung
;
Biografie
Author information:
Rippl, Gabriele 1962-
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