Format:
1 Online-Ressource (264 pages)
ISBN:
9781317684718
Series Statement:
Routledge interdisciplinary perspectives on literature
Content:
This book provides a comprehensive compilation of essays on the relationship between formal experimentation and ethics in a number of generically hybrid or ""liminal"" narratives dealing with individual and collective traumas, running the spectrum from the testimonial novel and the fictional autobiography to the fake memoir, written by a variety of famous, more neglected contemporary British, Irish, US, Canadian, and German writers. Building on the psychological insights and theorizing of the fathers of trauma studies (Janet, Freud, Ferenczi) and of contemporary trauma critics and theorists, t
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Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Performing the Void: Liminality and the Ethics of Form in Contemporary Trauma Narratives; PART I Ethics and Generic Hybridity; 1 Learning from Fakes: Memoir, Confessional Ethics, and the Limits of Genre; 2 " . . . with a foot in both worlds": The Liminal Ethics of Jenny Diski's Postmodern Fables; 3 Witnessing without Witnesses: Atwood's Oryx and Crake as Limit-Case of Fictional Testimony
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4 "I do remember terrible dark things, and loss, and noise": Historical Trauma and Its Narrative Representation in Sebastian Barry's The Secret ScripturePART II Ethics and the Aesthetics of Excess; 5 Vulnerable Form and Traumatic Vulnerability: Jon McGregor's Even the Dogs; 6 Ethics, Aesthetics, and History in Lawrence Durrell's Avignon Quintet; 7 The Ethics of Breaking up the Family Romance in David Mitchell's Number9Dream; 8 "circling and circling and circling . . . whirligogs": A Knotty Novel for a Tangled Object Trauma in Will Self's Umbrella
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PART III Ethics and Structural Experimentation9 Family Archive Fever: Daniel Mendelsohn's The Lost; 10 "The Roche Limit": Digression and Return in W. G. Sebald's The Rings of Saturn; 11 "Separateness and Connectedness": Generational Trauma and the Ethical Impulse in Anne Karpf's The War After: Living with the Holocaust; 12 Hybridity, Montage, and the Rhetorics and Ethics of Suffering in Anne Michaels's Fugitive Pieces; Contributors; Index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781138024496
Additional Edition:
Print version Contemporary Trauma Narratives : Liminality and the Ethics of Form
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books
Author information:
Onega, Susana 1948-
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