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Futurity : contemporary literature and the quest for the past /

"When looking at how trauma is represented in literature and the arts, we tend to focus on the weight of the past. In this book, Amir Eshel suggests that this retrospective gaze has trapped us in a search for reason in the madness of the twentieth century's catastrophes at the expense of l...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Eshel, Amir
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2013.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Coming to terms with the future: German literature in search of the past
  • Writing the unsaid: Hebrew literature and the question of Palestinian flight and expulsion
  • Futurity and action.