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The Resource Haunted narratives : life writing in an age of trauma, edited by Gabriele Rippl, Philipp Schweighauser, Tiina Kirss, Margit Sutrop, and Therese Steffen

Haunted narratives : life writing in an age of trauma, edited by Gabriele Rippl, Philipp Schweighauser, Tiina Kirss, Margit Sutrop, and Therese Steffen

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Contributor
Summary
"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. From the perspectives of trauma theory, memory studies, gender studies, literary studies, philosophy, and post-colonial studies, the volume stresses the lingering, haunting presence of the past in the present. The contributors focus on the psychological, ethical, and representational difficulties involved in narrative negotiations of traumatic memories. Haunted Narratives focuses on life writing in the broadest sense of the term: biographies and autobiographies that deal with traumatic experiences, autobiographically inspired fictions on loss and trauma, and limit-cases that transcend clear-cut distinctions between the factual and the fictional. In discussing texts as diverse as Toni Morrison's Beloved, Vikram Seth's Two Lives, deportation narratives of Baltic women, Christa Wolf's Kindheitsmuster, Joy Kogawa's Obasan, and Ene Mihkelson's Ahasveeruse uni, the contributors add significantly to current debates on life writing, trauma, and memory; the contested notion of 'cultural trauma'; and the transferability of clinical-psychological notions to the study of literature and culture."--Publisher's description
Language
eng
Work
Publication
Extent
vii, 352 pages
Contents
  • Auto/biographies as trauma narratives. Richard Wollheim's Germs : life writing as therapy, despite theory
  • Julia Straub
  • Writing childhood, writing lack
  • Maarja Hollo
  • Loquacious silences : Vikram Seth's Two lives and the German language
  • Nora Anna Escherle
  • Unsayable or merely unsaid?
  • Eneken Laanes
  • Voicing trauma in the deportation narratives of Baltic women
  • Leena Kurvet-Käosaar
  • Introduction : life writing in an age of trauma
  • Trauma narratives and national identity
  • Annie Cottier^^^^
  • Gabriele Rippl, Philipp Schweighauser, and Therese Steffen
  • pt. 1.
  • Life writing and trauma : theorizing the vicissitudes of representing violence. Seeing ghosts : theorizing haunting in literary texts
  • Tiina Kirss
  • Trauma and Utopia : Benjamin, Adorno, and Elie Wiesel's Night
  • Philipp Schweighauser
  • pt. 2.
  • Meddling with memory : negating grand narratives
  • Nora Anna Escherle
  • Fighting fear with writing : Christa Wolf`s Kindheitsmuster and Ene Mihkelson's Ahasveeruse uni (The sleep of Ahasuerus)
  • Aija Sakova
  • The stigma of the autobiographical
  • Julia Straub
  • The search for the lost parent in Joy Kogawa's Obasan and Ene Mihkelson's Ahasveeruse uni (The sleep of Ahasuerus)
  • Eva Rein
  • Making the silence speak : a critical discussion of trauma transmission and identity formation
  • Stefanie Preuss
  • pt. 4.
  • Fictions of loss and trauma. (Re-)visions of the buried self : childhood trauma and self-narration in Margaret Atwood's Cat's eye
  • Christa Schönfelder^^^^
  • pt. 3.
  • Limit-cases : exploring the limits of telling pain. "Metaphors for the Scots today" : history and national identity in Scottish drama after 1945
  • Stefanie Preuss
  • Aspects of post-imperial constructions of nationhood
  • Eva Rein
  • Anecdotalization of memory in Jaan Kross' Paigallend
  • Eneken Laanes
  • Annie Cottier
  • What only fiction can do
  • Leena Kurvet-Käosaar
  • Afterword : ethical and political aspects of life writing and remembering
  • Margit Sutrop
  • Grasping patterns of violence
  • Aija Sakova
  • Nostalgia and redemption in Bernard Kangro's Joonatan novels
  • Maarja Hollo
  • Renegotiations of longing and belonging : exile, memory, and nostalgia
  • Christa Schönfelder
  • Haunted whispers from the footnotes : life writing in Raj Kamal Jha's Fireproof
Isbn
9781442646018
Instance
Label
Haunted narratives : life writing in an age of trauma
Title
Haunted narratives
Title remainder
life writing in an age of trauma
Statement of responsibility
edited by Gabriele Rippl, Philipp Schweighauser, Tiina Kirss, Margit Sutrop, and Therese Steffen
Contributor
Editor
Subject
Genre
Language
eng
Summary
"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. From the perspectives of trauma theory, memory studies, gender studies, literary studies, philosophy, and post-colonial studies, the volume stresses the lingering, haunting presence of the past in the present. The contributors focus on the psychological, ethical, and representational difficulties involved in narrative negotiations of traumatic memories. Haunted Narratives focuses on life writing in the broadest sense of the term: biographies and autobiographies that deal with traumatic experiences, autobiographically inspired fictions on loss and trauma, and limit-cases that transcend clear-cut distinctions between the factual and the fictional. In discussing texts as diverse as Toni Morrison's Beloved, Vikram Seth's Two Lives, deportation narratives of Baltic women, Christa Wolf's Kindheitsmuster, Joy Kogawa's Obasan, and Ene Mihkelson's Ahasveeruse uni, the contributors add significantly to current debates on life writing, trauma, and memory; the contested notion of 'cultural trauma'; and the transferability of clinical-psychological notions to the study of literature and culture."--Publisher's description
Cataloging source
NLC
Index
index present
LC call number
PN56.A89
LC item number
H38 2013
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
bibliography
http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
Rippl, Gabriele
http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
  • Autobiography
  • Biography as a literary form
  • Biographical fiction
  • Autobiography in literature
  • Biography in literature
  • Psychic trauma in literature
  • Memory in literature
  • Autobiographie
  • Biographie (Genre littéraire)
  • Roman biographique
  • Autobiographie dans la littérature
  • Biographies dans la littérature
  • Traumatisme psychique dans la littérature
  • Mémoire dans la littérature
  • Autobiography
  • Autobiography in literature
  • Biographical fiction
  • Biography as a literary form
  • Biography in literature
  • Memory in literature
  • Psychic trauma in literature
Label
Haunted narratives : life writing in an age of trauma, edited by Gabriele Rippl, Philipp Schweighauser, Tiina Kirss, Margit Sutrop, and Therese Steffen
Instantiates
Publication
Copyright
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
  • Auto/biographies as trauma narratives. Richard Wollheim's Germs : life writing as therapy, despite theory
  • Julia Straub
  • Writing childhood, writing lack
  • Maarja Hollo
  • Loquacious silences : Vikram Seth's Two lives and the German language
  • Nora Anna Escherle
  • Unsayable or merely unsaid?
  • Eneken Laanes
  • Voicing trauma in the deportation narratives of Baltic women
  • Leena Kurvet-Käosaar
  • Introduction : life writing in an age of trauma
  • Trauma narratives and national identity
  • Annie Cottier^^^^
  • Gabriele Rippl, Philipp Schweighauser, and Therese Steffen
  • pt. 1.
  • Life writing and trauma : theorizing the vicissitudes of representing violence. Seeing ghosts : theorizing haunting in literary texts
  • Tiina Kirss
  • Trauma and Utopia : Benjamin, Adorno, and Elie Wiesel's Night
  • Philipp Schweighauser
  • pt. 2.
  • Meddling with memory : negating grand narratives
  • Nora Anna Escherle
  • Fighting fear with writing : Christa Wolf`s Kindheitsmuster and Ene Mihkelson's Ahasveeruse uni (The sleep of Ahasuerus)
  • Aija Sakova
  • The stigma of the autobiographical
  • Julia Straub
  • The search for the lost parent in Joy Kogawa's Obasan and Ene Mihkelson's Ahasveeruse uni (The sleep of Ahasuerus)
  • Eva Rein
  • Making the silence speak : a critical discussion of trauma transmission and identity formation
  • Stefanie Preuss
  • pt. 4.
  • Fictions of loss and trauma. (Re-)visions of the buried self : childhood trauma and self-narration in Margaret Atwood's Cat's eye
  • Christa Schönfelder^^^^
  • pt. 3.
  • Limit-cases : exploring the limits of telling pain. "Metaphors for the Scots today" : history and national identity in Scottish drama after 1945
  • Stefanie Preuss
  • Aspects of post-imperial constructions of nationhood
  • Eva Rein
  • Anecdotalization of memory in Jaan Kross' Paigallend
  • Eneken Laanes
  • Annie Cottier
  • What only fiction can do
  • Leena Kurvet-Käosaar
  • Afterword : ethical and political aspects of life writing and remembering
  • Margit Sutrop
  • Grasping patterns of violence
  • Aija Sakova
  • Nostalgia and redemption in Bernard Kangro's Joonatan novels
  • Maarja Hollo
  • Renegotiations of longing and belonging : exile, memory, and nostalgia
  • Christa Schönfelder
  • Haunted whispers from the footnotes : life writing in Raj Kamal Jha's Fireproof
Dimensions
24 cm
Extent
vii, 352 pages
Isbn
9781442646018
Lccn
2013409990
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
System control number
  • (OCoLC)823506317
  • (OCoLC)ocn823506317
Label
Haunted narratives : life writing in an age of trauma, edited by Gabriele Rippl, Philipp Schweighauser, Tiina Kirss, Margit Sutrop, and Therese Steffen
Publication
Copyright
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
  • Auto/biographies as trauma narratives. Richard Wollheim's Germs : life writing as therapy, despite theory
  • Julia Straub
  • Writing childhood, writing lack
  • Maarja Hollo
  • Loquacious silences : Vikram Seth's Two lives and the German language
  • Nora Anna Escherle
  • Unsayable or merely unsaid?
  • Eneken Laanes
  • Voicing trauma in the deportation narratives of Baltic women
  • Leena Kurvet-Käosaar
  • Introduction : life writing in an age of trauma
  • Trauma narratives and national identity
  • Annie Cottier^^^^
  • Gabriele Rippl, Philipp Schweighauser, and Therese Steffen
  • pt. 1.
  • Life writing and trauma : theorizing the vicissitudes of representing violence. Seeing ghosts : theorizing haunting in literary texts
  • Tiina Kirss
  • Trauma and Utopia : Benjamin, Adorno, and Elie Wiesel's Night
  • Philipp Schweighauser
  • pt. 2.
  • Meddling with memory : negating grand narratives
  • Nora Anna Escherle
  • Fighting fear with writing : Christa Wolf`s Kindheitsmuster and Ene Mihkelson's Ahasveeruse uni (The sleep of Ahasuerus)
  • Aija Sakova
  • The stigma of the autobiographical
  • Julia Straub
  • The search for the lost parent in Joy Kogawa's Obasan and Ene Mihkelson's Ahasveeruse uni (The sleep of Ahasuerus)
  • Eva Rein
  • Making the silence speak : a critical discussion of trauma transmission and identity formation
  • Stefanie Preuss
  • pt. 4.
  • Fictions of loss and trauma. (Re-)visions of the buried self : childhood trauma and self-narration in Margaret Atwood's Cat's eye
  • Christa Schönfelder^^^^
  • pt. 3.
  • Limit-cases : exploring the limits of telling pain. "Metaphors for the Scots today" : history and national identity in Scottish drama after 1945
  • Stefanie Preuss
  • Aspects of post-imperial constructions of nationhood
  • Eva Rein
  • Anecdotalization of memory in Jaan Kross' Paigallend
  • Eneken Laanes
  • Annie Cottier
  • What only fiction can do
  • Leena Kurvet-Käosaar
  • Afterword : ethical and political aspects of life writing and remembering
  • Margit Sutrop
  • Grasping patterns of violence
  • Aija Sakova
  • Nostalgia and redemption in Bernard Kangro's Joonatan novels
  • Maarja Hollo
  • Renegotiations of longing and belonging : exile, memory, and nostalgia
  • Christa Schönfelder
  • Haunted whispers from the footnotes : life writing in Raj Kamal Jha's Fireproof
Dimensions
24 cm
Extent
vii, 352 pages
Isbn
9781442646018
Lccn
2013409990
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
System control number
  • (OCoLC)823506317
  • (OCoLC)ocn823506317

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