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Title Other People's Pain : Narratives of Trauma and the Question of Ethics / Martin Modlinger and Philipp Sonntag (eds)
Published New York : Peter Lang, 2011
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Description 1 online resource (vi, 244 pages)
Series Cultural history and literary imagination, 1660-6205 ; v. 18
Cultural history and literary imagination ; v. 18. 1660-6205
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
Summary How do we approach other people's pain? This question is of crucial importance to the humanities, particularly literary and cultural studies, whenever they address narratives of terror and genocide, injustice and oppression, violence and trauma. Talking about other people's pain inevitably draws attention to the ethical dimension involved in acknowledging stories and histories of violence while avoiding an appropriation - by the reading public, literary critics or cultural historians alike - of the traumatic experiences themselves. The question of how to do justice to the other's pain calls for an academic response that reflects as much on its own status as ethical agent as on literary expression and philosophical accounts or theoretical descriptions. This volume therefore explores the theoretical framework of trauma studies and its place within academic discourse and society, and examines from a multidisciplinary perspective the possibilities and limitations of trauma as an analytical category. A variety of case studies on individual and collective traumatic experiences as portrayed in literature and art highlight the ethical implications involved in the production, reception and analysis of other people's pain
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Ethics in literature.
Psychic trauma in literature.
Violence in literature.
Violence -- Psychological aspects.
Form Electronic book
Author Modlinger, Martin, 1981-
Sonntag, Philipp.
ISBN 3035301433 (e-book)
9783035301434 (e-book)
(alk. paper)