Haunted narratives : life writing in an age of trauma /

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Exploring life writing from a variety of cultural contexts, Haunted Narratives provides new insights into how individuals and communities across time and space deal with traumatic experiences and haunting memories.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Rippl, Gabriele
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, ©2013.
Subjects:
1900-1999
Autobiography.
Biography as a literary form.
Literature, Modern > 20th century > History and criticism.
Autobiography in literature.
Biography in literature.
Psychic trauma in literature.
Memory in literature.
Biographical fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
Biography.
Autobiographies as Topic
Biographies as Topic
Autobiographie.
Biographie (Genre littéraire)
Roman biographique > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Autobiographie dans la littérature.
Biographies dans la littérature.
Traumatisme psychique dans la littérature.
Mémoire dans la littérature.
Littérature > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Biographies.
autobiography (genre)
biographies (literary works)
biography (general genre)
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > General.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Literary.
Biographical fiction
Autobiography
Autobiography in literature
Biography as a literary form
Biography in literature
Literature, Modern
Memory in literature
Psychic trauma in literature
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Life Writing in an Age of Trauma / Gabriele Rippl, Philipp Schweighauser, and Therese Steffen
  • Part One: Life Writing and Trauma: Theorizing the Vicissitudes of Representing Violence. 1 Seeing Ghosts: Theorizing Haunting in Literary Texts / Tiina Kirss
  • 2 Trauma and Utopia: Benjamin, Adorno, and Elie Wiesel's / Night Philipp Schweighauser.
  • Part Three: Limit-cases: Exploring the Limits of Telling Pain. 9 "Metaphors for the Scots Today": History and National Identity in Scottish Drama after 1945 / Stefanie Preuss
  • 10 Aspects of Post-Imperial Constructions of Nationhood / Eva Rein
  • 11 Anecdotalization of Memory in Jaan Kross's Paigallend / Eneken Laanes
  • 12 Meddling with Memory
  • Negating Grand Narratives / Nora Anna Escherle
  • 13 Fighting Fear with Writing: Christa Wolf's Kindheitsmuster and Ene Mihkelson's Ahasveeruse uni (The Sleep of Ahasuerus) / Aija Sakova
  • 14 The Stigma of the Autobiographical / Julia Straub
  • 15 The Search for the Lost Parent in Joy Kogawa's Obasan and Ene Mihkelson's Ahasveeruse uni (The Sleep of Ahasuerus) / Eva Rein
  • 16 Making the Silence Speak: A Critical Discussion of Trauma Transmission and Identity Formation / Stefanie Preuss.

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