A Poetics of Trauma After 9/11: Representing Trauma in a Digitized Present

ISBN-13: 9780367875640 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 214 str.

Katharina Donn

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The 9/11 attacks have come to epitomize the entanglement of intimate vulnerability and virtual spectacle that is typical of the globalized present. Working with concepts of trauma, mediation, and materiality, this book offers radically new interpretive frames for interrogating representations of the attacks. Interconnections between clinical pat

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Acknowledgements

Introduction: From Memory to Mediation. Towards a Trauma Theory of the Digitized Present

1 The Unspeakability Thesis Reconsidered

Foreign Bodies: Deconstructing the Freudian Legacy

(Im) Possibilities of Representation: Virtual Trauma and the Real

Trauma Literature beyond Unspeakability: A Tentative Poetics

2 The Ethics of Form: Trauma Literature After 9/11

From the Frame to Critique: Discursive Power in a Context of Cultural Trauma

Vulnerability as Spectacle? Figuring the Fall

Encountering the Face of the Other: Alterity after Trauma

3 Detouring the Singularity of Trauma: Jonathan Safran Foer’s Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

Records to be made? Silence and Testimony

Historical and Symbolic Archives: Meandering towards the Present Absence of 9/11

9/11 Transnationalized?

4 "Icons of a More Innocent Age"? Art Spiegelman’s In the Shadow of No Towers

"I never Loved those Arrogant Boxes": Enacting Trauma in Comix

Metamorphosing Trauma: 9/11 as the Grotesque

Against the End of Irony: Trauma as Resistance

5 Precarious Bodies: Don DeLillo’s Falling Man

Unstable Sociality: Embodied Patterns of Interconnectedness

The Ethics of Witnessing Terror: Falling into Perception

Resisting Totality: Unsettled Signification and the Anti-Spectacular

6 Trauma in a Virtual World: William Gibson’s Pattern Recognition

Realities of Trauma, the Trauma of Reality: Witnessing as Pattern Recognition

The ‘Footage:’ Video Art and the Negative Sublime

Affect and Globalization: Histories of Violence and Post-Traumatic Encounters

7 Conclusion: Re-Situating the Subject in the Af

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Katharina Donn is a lecturer and postdoctoral fellow at the University of Augsburg, Germany, focusing on trauma and memory in U.S.-American literature, and has held visiting fellowships at the Eccles Centre for American Studies, the Institute of Advanced Studies at University College London, and a visiting professorship at the University of Texas at Austin.