| Description |
vi, 244 pages ; 23 cm |
| Series |
Cultural history and literary imagination ; v. 18 |
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Cultural history and literary imagination ; v. 18
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| Contents |
Introduction / Martin Modlinger and Philipp Sonntag -- Trauma and ethics: telling the other's story / Colin Davis -- From collective violence to a common future: four models for dealing with a traumatic past / Aleida Assmann -- Trauma studies: contexts, politics, ethics / Susannah Radstone -- Narrating the Holocaust and its legacy: the complexities of identity, trauma and representation in Art Spiegelman's Maus / María Jesús Martínez-Alfaro -- Zero, a gaping mouth: the discourse of the camps in Herta Müller's Atemschaukel between literary theory and political philosophy / Bettina Bannasch -- Trauma, narrative and ethics in recent American fiction / Hubert Zapf -- Trauma as normalcy: pain in Philip Roth's The human stain / Rudolf Freiburg -- Trauma, shame and ethical responsibility for the death of the other in J. M. Coetzee's Waiting for the barbarians / Susana Onega |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Violence in literature.
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Violence -- Psychological aspects.
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Psychic trauma in literature.
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Ethics in literature.
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| Author |
Modlinger, Martin, 1981-
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Sonntag, Philipp.
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| LC no. |
2011009000 |
| ISBN |
9783034302609 alkaline paper |
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3034302606 alkaline paper |
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