Haunted narratives : life writing in an age of trauma / edited by Gabriele Rippl ... [and others].

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.