LEADER 04227cam a2200421Ia 4500001 115114 005 20240621201436.0 008 060329s2003 xx rb 000 0 eng d 028 52 3121698 |bUMI 035 (OCoLC)ocm69420214 035 115114 049 LHMA 040 LHM |beng |erda |cLHM 090 PJ5054.A755 |bZ885 2003 100 1 Shlensky, Lincoln. 245 10 Resituations : |brepetition, nationalism, and the traumas of modernity in the writing of Aharon Appelfeld and Édouard Glissant / |cby Lincoln Shlensky. 264 1 [Place of publication not identified] : |b[publisher not identified], |c2003. 300 vii, 398 pages 336 text |btxt |2rdacontent 337 unmediated |bn |2rdamedia 338 volume |bnc |2rdacarrier 502 Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, Berkeley, 2003. 504 Includes bibliographical references (pages 383-398). 520 This dissertation examines the consequences of the (post)colonial experience in the Caribbean and nationhood in Israel as represented in the contemporary fiction and essays of Édouard Glissant and Aharon Appelfeld. The works of both Glissant and Appelfeld, I argue, represent a challenge to collective representational codes that achieved dominance within their respective societies.For Appelfeld, who as an adolescent survived the Jewish genocide in Europe and arrived in Palestine just prior to the establishment of the Israeli state, and for Glissant, who grew up in colonial Martinique of the 1930s-40s, the idealistic collective projects envisioned by an earlier generation, and the narratives or "grands récits" (Lyotard) that sustain those projects, proved to be insufficient for contending with the fractured epistemologies and social disintegration associated with historical trauma. Both writers recognize, however, that it is not traumatic events themselves that are rendered "unspeakable" within collective discourse. It is the ongoing social conflicts generated by those events, rather, that collective narratives tend to suppress.I contend that the figure of repetition is pivotally significant in the writings of Appelfeld and Glissant because, as a literary analogue of traumatic symptoms, its formal disruption of narrative linearity signals the persistence in discourse of latent social conflicts and marginal identity formations. At once a leit-motif and a formal device, repetition in these authors' works sometimes establishes and even intensifies a master thematic or structural pattern of official history. At other times, however, repetition's estranging and displacing effects suggest new formal and political possibilities that may emerge at the outer limits of dominant narratives.In an effort to bridge philosophical as well as disciplinary boundaries, my dissertation brings together postcolonial critics such as Frantz Fanon and Homi Bhabha, psychoanalytically informed theorists of trauma such as Freud and Cathy Caruth, and discourse analysts such as Judith Butler. I show that the discursive intersections of postcolonial, trauma, and Jewish studies expose critical blind spots within each field. By bringing these fields and authors together, however, I make the case for a comparative study that amplifies the surprising contiguities among disparate theories, texts, contexts and those who write (within) them. 530 Electronic version(s) |bavailable internally at USHMM. 533 Photocopy. |bAnn Arbor, Mich. : |cUMI Dissertation Services, |d2006. |e22 cm. 590 Dissertations and Theses 591 Record updated by Marcive processing 20 January 2012. 591 Record updated by Marcive processing 21 June 2024 600 10 Apelfeld, Aharon |xCriticism and interpretation. 600 10 Glissant, Édouard, |d1928-2011 |xCriticism and interpretation. 650 0 Psychic trauma in literature. 856 41 |uhttp://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=765342781&sid=58&Fmt=6&clientId=54617&RQT=309&VName=PQD |zElectronic version from ProQuest 956 41 |u http://dc.ushmm.org/library/bib115114/3121698.pdf |z Hosted by USHMM. 994 C0 |bLHM 852 0 |bstacks |hPJ5054.A755 |iZ885 2003 852 |bwww 852 0 |bebook