Contemporary Trauma Narratives: Liminality and the Ethics of Form

ISBN-13: 9781138547896 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 264 str.

Jean-Michel Ganteau; Susana Onega

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Contemporary Trauma Narratives: Liminality and the Ethics of Form gives an insight into the relationship between the difficulty of putting traumatic events or experiences into words and the subsequent ethicality of aesthetic forms used to represent trauma. It is an excellent resource for scholars of contemporary literature, trauma studies and literary theory.

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Introduction Performing the Void: Liminality and the Ethics of Form in Contemporary Trauma Narratives Jean-Michel Ganteau and Susana Onega  Part 1: Ethics and Generic Hybridity  1. Learning from Fakes: Memoir, Confessional Ethics, and the Limits of Genre Leigh Gilmore  2. ". . . with a foot in both worlds": The Liminal Ethics of Jenny Diski’s Postmodern Fables Maria Grazia Nicolosi  3. Witnessing without Witnesses: Atwood’s Oryx and Crake as Limit-Case of Fictional Testimony Marie-Luise Kohlke  4.  "I do remember terrible dark things, and loss, and noise": Historical Trauma and its Narrative Representation in Sebastian Barry’s The Secret Scripture Rudolf Freiburg  Part 2: Ethics and the Aesthetics of Excess  5. Vulnerable Form and Traumatic Vulnerability: Jon McGregor's Even the Dogs Jean-Michel Ganteau  6. Ethics, Aesthetics and History in Lawrence Durrell’s Avignon Quintet Dianne Vipond  7. The Ethics of Breaking up the Family Romance in David Mitchell’s Number9Dream Gerd Bayer  8.  "circling and circling and circling. . .whirligogs": A Knotty Novel for a Tangled Object Trauma in Will Self’s Umbrella Georges Letissier  Part 3: Ethics and Structural Experimentation  9. Family Archive Fever: Daniel Mendelsohn's The Lost Marc Amfreville  10. "The Roche limit": Digression and Return in W. G. Sebald’s The Rings of Saturn Ivan Stacy  11. "Separateness and Connectedness": Generational Trauma and the Ethical Impulse in Anne Karpf’s The War After: Living with the Holocaust Silvia Pellicer-Ortín  12. Hybridity, Montage and the Rhetorics and Ethics of Suffering in Anne Michaels’s Fugitive Pieces Susana Onega