Overview
- Format
- Book
- Published
- Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, [2013]
©2013 - Contents
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Introduction: Life Writing in an Age of Trauma / Gabriele Rippl, Philipp Schweighauser, Therese Steffen
Life Writing and Trauma: Theorizing the Vicissitudes of Representing Violence
Seeing Ghosts : Theorizing Haunting in Literary Texts / Tiina Kirss
Trauma and Utopia : Benjamin, Adorno, and Elie Wiesel's Night / Philipp Schweighauser
Auto/biographies as Trauma Narratives
Richard Wollheim's Germs : Life Writing as Therapy, Despite Theory / Julia Straub
Writing Childhood, Writing Lack / Maarja Hollo
Loquacious Silences: Vikram Seth's Two Lives and the German Language / Nora Anna Escherle
Unsayable or Merely Unsaid? / Eneken Laanes
Voicing Trauma in the Deportation Narratives of Baltic Women / Leena Kurvet-Käosaar
Trauma Narratives and National Identity / Annie Cottier
Limit-cases: Exploring the Limits of Telling Pain
"Metaphors for the Scots Today" : History and National Identity in Scottish Drama after 1945 / Stefanie Preuss
Aspects of Post-Imperial Constructions of Nationhood / Eva Rein
Anecdotalization of Memory in Jaan Kross' Paigallend / Eneken Laanes
Meddling with Memory
Negating Grand Narratives / Nora Anna Escherle
Fighting Fear with Writing: Christa Wolfgrave's Kindheitsmuster and Ene Mihkelson's Ahasveeruse uni (The Sleep of Ahasuerus) / Aija Sakova
The Stigma of the Autobiographical / Julia Straub
The Search for the Lost Parent in Joy Kogawa's Obasan and Ene Mihkelson's Ahasveeruse uni (The Sleep of Ahasuerus) / Eva Rein
Making the Silence Speak : A Critical Discussion of Trauma Transmission and Identity Formation / Stefanie Preuss
Fictions of Loss and Trauma
(Re-)Visions of the Buried Self: Childhood Trauma and Self-Narration in Margaret Atwood's Cat's Eye / Christa Schönfelder
Grasping Patterns of Violence / Aija Sakova
Nostalgia and Redemption in Bernard Kangro's Joonatan-Novels / Maarja Hollo
Renegotiations of Longing and Belonging : Exile, Memory and Nostalgia / Christa Schönfelder
Haunted Whispers from the Footnotes: Life Writing in Raj Kamal Jha's Fireproof / Annie Cottier
What Only Fiction Can Do / Leena Kurvet-Käosaar
Afterword: Ethical and Political Aspects of Life Writing and Remembering / Margit Sutrop. - Notes
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: Life Writing in an Age of Trauma / Gabriele Rippl, Philipp Schweighauser, Therese Steffen -- Life Writing and Trauma: Theorizing the Vicissitudes of Representing Violence -- Seeing Ghosts : Theorizing Haunting in Literary Texts / Tiina Kirss -- Trauma and Utopia : Benjamin, Adorno, and Elie Wiesel's Night / Philipp Schweighauser -- Auto/biographies as Trauma Narratives -- Richard Wollheim's Germs : Life Writing as Therapy, Despite Theory / Julia Straub -- Writing Childhood, Writing Lack / Maarja Hollo -- Loquacious Silences: Vikram Seth's Two Lives and the German Language / Nora Anna Escherle -- Unsayable or Merely Unsaid? / Eneken Laanes -- Voicing Trauma in the Deportation Narratives of Baltic Women / Leena Kurvet-Käosaar -- Trauma Narratives and National Identity / Annie Cottier -- Limit-cases: Exploring the Limits of Telling Pain -- "Metaphors for the Scots Today" : History and National Identity in Scottish Drama after 1945 / Stefanie Preuss -- Aspects of Post-Imperial Constructions of Nationhood / Eva Rein -- Anecdotalization of Memory in Jaan Kross' Paigallend / Eneken Laanes -- Meddling with Memory--Negating Grand Narratives / Nora Anna Escherle -- Fighting Fear with Writing: Christa Wolfgrave's Kindheitsmuster and Ene Mihkelson's Ahasveeruse uni (The Sleep of Ahasuerus) / Aija Sakova -- The Stigma of the Autobiographical / Julia Straub -- The Search for the Lost Parent in Joy Kogawa's Obasan and Ene Mihkelson's Ahasveeruse uni (The Sleep of Ahasuerus) / Eva Rein -- Making the Silence Speak : A Critical Discussion of Trauma Transmission and Identity Formation / Stefanie Preuss -- Fictions of Loss and Trauma -- (Re-)Visions of the Buried Self: Childhood Trauma and Self-Narration in Margaret Atwood's Cat's Eye / Christa Schönfelder -- Grasping Patterns of Violence / Aija Sakova -- Nostalgia and Redemption in Bernard Kangro's Joonatan-Novels / Maarja Hollo -- Renegotiations of Longing and Belonging : Exile, Memory and Nostalgia / Christa Schönfelder -- Haunted Whispers from the Footnotes: Life Writing in Raj Kamal Jha's Fireproof / Annie Cottier -- What Only Fiction Can Do / Leena Kurvet-Käosaar -- Afterword: Ethical and Political Aspects of Life Writing and Remembering / Margit Sutrop.
Physical Details
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- English
- ISBN
- 9781442646018
1442646012 - Physical Description
- vii, 352 pages ; 24 cm
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