Traumatic Memory and the Ethical, Political and Transhistorical Functions of Literature
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Traumatic Memory and the Ethical, Political and Transhistorical Functions of Literature

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Traumatic Memory and the Ethical, Political and Transhistorical Functions of Literature

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This volume addresses the construction and artistic representation of traumatic memories in the contemporary Western world from a variety of inter- and trans-disciplinarity critical approaches and perspectives, ranging from the cultural, political, historical, and ideological to the ethical and aesthetic, and distinguishing between individual, collective, and cultural traumas. The chapters introduce complementary concepts from diverse thinkers including Cathy Caruth, Jacques Derrida, Judith Butler, Homi Bhabha, Abraham and Torok, and Joyce Carol Oates; they also draw from fields of study such as Memory Studies, Theory of Affects, Narrative and Genre Theory, and Cultural Studies.

Traumatic Memory and the Political, Economic, and Transhistorical Functions of Literature addresses trauma as a culturally embedded phenomenon and deconstructs the idea of trauma as universal, transhistorical, and abstract.

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Table of contents

  1. Traumatic Memory and the Ethical, Political and Transhistorical Functions of Literature
  2. Chapter 1 Introduction
  3. Part I The Ideological and Aesthetic (Re)construction of Cultural Memory in Early Twentieth-Century Literature
  4. Chapter 2 Memory and Appropriation: Remembering Dante in Germany During the Sexcentenary of 1921
  5. Chapter 3 On Poetic Violence: W.B. Yeats’s “Leda and the Swan” and César Vallejo’s “Vusco volvvver de golpe el golpe”
  6. Part II Ethical and Aesthetic Challenges in the Representation, Transmission and Teaching of the Holocaust
  7. Chapter 4 Holocaust Trauma Between the National and the Transnational: Reflections on History’s “Broken Mirror”
  8. Chapter 5 Wandering Memory, Wandering Jews: Generic Hybridity and the Construction of Jewish Memory in Linda Grant’s Works
  9. Chapter 6 “Fighting Trauma”: Silencing the Past in Alan Scott Haft’s Harry Haft: Survivor of Auschwitz, Challenger of Rocky Marciano
  10. Part III Romance Strategies and Spectrality in the Fictional Representation of Traumatic Memories
  11. Chapter 7 Medieval Romance After HIV and AIDS: The Aesthetics of Innocence and Naïveté and the Postmodern Novel
  12. Chapter 8 Remembrance Between Act and Event: Anne Enright’s The Gathering
  13. Chapter 9 Class Trauma, Shame and Spectrality in Sarah Waters’s The Little Stranger
  14. Part IV Dislocated Lives and Narratives: Hybridity, Liminality and the Testimonial Representation of Traumatic Memories in a Postcolonial Context
  15. Chapter 10 On Exile, Memory and Food: Yasmin Alibhai-Brown’s The Settler’s Cookbook: A Memoir of Love, Migration and Food
  16. Chapter 11 Self-Representation and the (Im)Possibility of Remembering in Jamaica Kincaid’s The Autobiography of My Mother and Mr. Potter
  17. Chapter 12 Trauma, Screen Memories, Safe Spaces and Productive Melancholia in Toni Morrison’s Home
  18. Chapter 13 Conclusion
  19. Index