Haunted narratives : life writing in an age of trauma / edited by Gabriele Rippl, Philipp Schweighauser, Tiina Kirss, Margit Sutrop, and Therese Steffen.
Introduction : life writing in an age of trauma / 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. 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 -- Trauma narratives and national identity / Annie Cottier -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 / Annie Cottier -- What only fiction can do / Leena Kurvet-Käosaar -- Afterword : ethical and political aspects of life writing and remembering / Margit Sutrop.
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.
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