Other people's pain
Subtitle: narratives of trauma and the question of ethics
By: Martin Modlinger and Philipp Sonntag (eds)
Series: Cultural history and literary imagination -- 18
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9783034302609
Subjects: Violence; Psychic trauma in literature; Violence in literature; Ethics in literature; Psychological aspects
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Martin Modlinger and Philipp Sonntag; title: Trauma and ethics: telling the other's story / Colin Davis; title: From collective violence to a common future: four models for dealing with a traumatic past / Aleida Assmann; title: Trauma studies: contexts, politics, ethics / Susannah Radstone; title: Narrating the Holocaust and its legacy: the complexities of identity, trauma and representation in Art Spiegelman's Maus / María Jesús Martínez-Alfaro; title: Zero, a gaping mouth: the discourse of the camps in Herta Müller's Atemschaukel between literary theory and political philosophy / Bettina Bannasch; title: Trauma, narrative and ethics in recent American fiction / Hubert Zapf; title: Trauma as normalcy: pain in Philip Roth's The human stain / Rudolf Freiburg; title: Trauma, shame and ethical responsibility for the death of the other in J. M. Coetzee's Waiting for the barbarians / Susana Onega.