Between the urge to know and the need to deny
Subtitle: trauma and ethics in contemporary British and American literature
By: Dolores Herrero, Sonia Baelo-Allué (Eds.).
Publisher: Universitätsverlag Winter
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Heidelberg
Language: eng
Number of pages: 268
ISBN-13: 9783825358846
Subjects: Psychic trauma in literature; English fiction; American fiction; Wounds and injuries in literature; Ethics in literature; History and criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: between the urge to known [sic.] and the need to deny / Dolores Herrero and Sonia Baelo-Allué; title: Framing trauma and ethics. Disquieted negative capability: the ethics of trauma in contemporary literature / Jean-Michel Ganteau; title: "That was their deal" trauma narratives' ethical re-framings / Laurie Vickroy; title: Trauma, gender and identity. Barred from the sublime: structural trauma and gender socialisation in Jenefer Shute's Life-size / Mónica Calvo; title: Narratives of maternal loss in contemporary women's writing: Julie Myerson's The story of you / Sonya Andermahr; title: Trauma and silence in Brian McCabe's "Say something" /Jessica Aliaga; title: Between individual and collective trauma: narrative erasures in Fanny Howe's The deep north /Antoine Cazé; title: The belated trauma of AIDS in Alan Hollinghurst's The swimming-pool library /José ma. Yebra-Pertusa; title: Trauma and genre. Experimental fiction and trauma studies: the case of Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five / Francisco Collado-Rodríguez; title: Apocalypse, memory and survival: a reading of Cormac McCarthy's The road as trauma narrative / Paula Martín; title: Gothic and trauma in Shirley Jackson's We have always lived in the castle / Marita Nadal; title: Living with other people's ghosts: Patrick McGrath's Trauma / Jocelyn Dupont; title: Masking and narrating trauma in Jane Yolen's Briar Rose: a holocaust fairy tale / María Jesús Martínez-Alfaro; title: The circular memory of writing. A reading of American intertexts in Ruth Klüger's Landscapes of memory. A holocaust girlhood remembered /Luisa Juárez; title: "To know, but not to know": myth and the working through of trauma in Eva Figes' Tales of innocence and experience / Silvia Pellicer-Ortín; title: The paradoxical foregrounding of the intimate in the representation of a national trauma: 9/11, according to Don DeLillo / Marc Amfreville; title: Individual trauma representation in graphic novels. The case of Paul Hornschemeier's Mother, come home and Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean's Signal to noise / Andrés Romero-Jódar; title: List of contributors.