Información General

• Autores: Susana Onega Jaén (coord.), Jean-Michel Ganteau (coord.)
• Editores: Routledge USA
• Año de publicación: 2014
• Colecciones: Routledge interdisciplinary perspectives on literature, 27
• País: Estados Unidos
• Idioma: inglés
• ISBN: 9781138024496
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Resumen

• This book provides a comprehensive compilation of essays on the relationship between formal experimentation and ethics in a number of generically hybrid or "liminal" narratives dealing with individual and collective traumas, running the spectrum from the testimonial novel and the fictional autobiography to the fake memoir, written by a variety of famous, more neglected contemporary British, Irish, US, Canadian, and German writers. Building on the psychological insights and theorizing of the fathers of trauma studies and of contemporary trauma critics and theorists, the articles examine the narrative strategies, structural experimentations and hybridizations of forms, paying special attention to the way in which the texts fight the unrepresentability of trauma by performing rather than representing it. The ethicality or unethicality involved in this endeavor is assessed from the combined perspectives of the non-foundational, non-cognitive, discursive ethics of alterity inspired by Emmanuel Levinas, and the ethics of vulnerability. This approach makes Contemporary Trauma Narratives an excellent resource for scholars of contemporary literature, trauma studies and literary theory.

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Listado de artículos

• • Introduction

    • Performing the Void: Liminality and the ethics of form in contemporary trauma narratives

      Jean-Michel Ganteau, Susana Onega Jaén

      págs. 1-18

      

  • Part 1: Ethics and Generic Hybridity

    • Learning from fakes: memoir, confessional ethics, and the limits of genre

      Leigh Gilmore

      págs. 21-35

      

    • ". . . with a foot in both worlds": The liminal ethics of Jenny Diski’s postmodern fables

      Maria Grazia Nicolosi

      págs. 36-52

      

    • Witnessing without witnesses: Atwood’s Oryx and Crake as limit-Case of fictional testimony

      Maria Kohle

      págs. 53-69

      

    • "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

      págs. 70-86

      

  • Part 2: Ethics and the Aesthetics of Excess

    • Vulnerable form and traumatic vulnerability: Jon McGregor's even the Dogs

      Jean-Michel Ganteau

      págs. 89-103

      

    • Ethics, aesthetics and history in Lawrence Durrell’s Avignon Quintet

      Dianne Vipond

      págs. 104-119

      

    • The ethics of breaking up the family romance in David Mitchell’s Number9Dream

      Gerd Bayer

      págs. 120-136

      

    • "circling and circling and circling....whirligogs": A knotty novel for a tangled object trauma in Will Self’s Umbrella

      Georges Letissier

      págs. 137-155

      

  • Part 3: Ethics and Structural Experimentation

    • Family archive fever: Daniel Mendelsohn's The Lost

      Marc Amfreville

      págs. 159-175

      

    • "The Roche limit": Digression and return in W. G. Sebald’s The Rings of Saturn

      Ivan Stacy

      págs. 176-192

      

    • "Separateness and Connectedness":: generational trauma and the ethical impulse in Anne Karpf's "The War after : living wit the holocaust"

      Silvia Pellicer Ortín

      págs. 193-209

      

    • Hybridity, montage and the rhetorics and ethics of suffering in Anne Michaels’s Fugitive Pieces

      Susana Onega Jaén

      págs. 210-238