Información General

• Autores: María Benita Nadal Blasco (coord.), Mónica Calvo (coord.)
• Editores: Routledge USA : Taylor & Francis Group, Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
• Año de publicación: 2014
• País: Estados Unidos
• Idioma: inglés
• ISBN: 9780415715874, 9781315880501
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Resumen

• Trauma in Contemporary Literatureanalyzes contemporary narrative texts in English in the light of trauma theory, including essays by scholars of different countries who approach trauma from a variety of perspectives. The book analyzes and applies the most relevant concepts and themes discussed in trauma theory, such as the relationship between individual and collective trauma, historical trauma, absence vs. loss, the roles of perpetrator and victim, dissociation, nachträglichkeit, transgenerational trauma, the process of acting out and working through, introjection and incorporation, mourning and melancholia, the phantom and the crypt, postmemory and multidirectional memory, shame and the affects, and the power of resilience to overcome trauma. Significantly, the essays not only focus on the phenomenon of trauma and its diverse manifestations but, above all, consider the elements that challenge the aporias of trauma, the traps of stasis and repetition, in order to reach beyond the confines of the traumatic condition and explore the possibilities of survival, healing and recovery.

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Listado de artículos

• • Trauma and Literary Representation: An Introduction

    María Benita Nadal Blasco, Mónica Calvo

    págs. 1-13

    

  • Part I. Global Trauma and the End of History

    • After the End: Psychoanalysis in the Ashes of History

      Cathy Caruth

      págs. 17-34

      

    • Apocalypses Now: Collective Trauma, Globalisation and the New Gothic Sublime

      Avril Horner

      págs. 35-50

      

    • Not Now, Not Yet: Polytemporality and Fictions of the Iraq War

      Roger Luckhurst

      págs. 51-70

      

  • Part II. Trauma and the Power of Narrative

    • The Turn to the Self and History in Eva Figes' Autobiographical Works: The Healing of the Old Wounds?

      Silvia Pellicer Ortín

      págs. 73-87

      

    • History, Dreams, and Shards: On Starting Over in Jenny Diski's

      Gerd Bayer

      págs. 88-99

      

    • Plight versus Right: Trauma and the Process of Recovering and Moving beyond the Past in Zoë Wicomb's Playing in the Light

      María Dolores Herrero Granado

      págs. 100-115

      

    • Seeing It Twice: Trauma and Resilience in the Narrative of Janette Turner Hospital

      Isabel Fraile Murlanch

      págs. 116-133

      

    • The Burden of the Old Country's History on the Psyche of Dominican-American Migrants: Junot Díaz's The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

      Aitor Ibarrola Armendariz

      págs. 134-147

      

  • Part III. Trauma and the Problem of Representation

    • H. D.'s Twice-(Un)Told Tale

      Marc Amfreville

      págs. 151-162

      

    • "Time to Write the Off"?: Impossible Voices and the Problem of Representing Trauma in The Virgin Suicides

      Bilyana Vanylova Kostova

      págs. 163-177

      

    • Fugal Repetition and the Re-enactments of Trauma: Holocaust Representation in Paul Celan's "Deathfugue" and Cynthia Ozick's The Shawl

      María Jesús Martínez Alfaro

      págs. 178-193

      

    • Of Ramps and Selections: The Persistence of Trauma in Julian Barnes' A History of the World in 10 ½ Chapters

      Jean-Michel Ganteau

      págs. 194-206

      

    • The Trauma of Anthropocentrism and the Reconnection of Self and World in J. M Coetzee's Dusklands

      Susana Onega Jaén

      págs. 207-222

      

    • "There's that curtain come down": The Burden of Shame in Sarah Waters' The Night Watch

      María Teresa Escudero Alías

      págs. 223-236

      

    • "Welcome to contemporary trauma culture": Foreshadowing, Sideshadowing and Trauma in Ian McEwan's Saturday

      Bárbara María Arizti Martín

      págs. 237-247