| Description |
1 online resource (vii, 352 pages) |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: Life Writing in an Age of Trauma / Gabriele Rippl, Philipp Schweighauser, and Therese Steffen -- Part One: Life Writing and Trauma: Theorizing the Vicissitudes of Representing Violence. 1 Seeing Ghosts: Theorizing Haunting in Literary Texts / Tiina Kirss -- 2 Trauma and Utopia: Benjamin, Adorno, and Elie Wiesel's / Night Philipp Schweighauser. |
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Part Three: Limit-cases: Exploring the Limits of Telling Pain. 9 "Metaphors for the Scots Today": History and National Identity in Scottish Drama after 1945 / Stefanie Preuss -- 10 Aspects of Post-Imperial Constructions of Nationhood / Eva Rein -- 11 Anecdotalization of Memory in Jaan Kross's Paigallend / Eneken Laanes -- 12 Meddling with Memory -- Negating Grand Narratives / Nora Anna Escherle -- 13 Fighting Fear with Writing: Christa Wolf's Kindheitsmuster and Ene Mihkelson's Ahasveeruse uni (The Sleep of Ahasuerus) / Aija Sakova -- 14 The Stigma of the Autobiographical / Julia Straub -- 15 The Search for the Lost Parent in Joy Kogawa's Obasan and Ene Mihkelson's Ahasveeruse uni (The Sleep of Ahasuerus) / Eva Rein -- 16 Making the Silence Speak: A Critical Discussion of Trauma Transmission and Identity Formation / Stefanie Preuss. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Autobiography.
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Autobiography. |
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Biography as a literary form.
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Biography as a literary form. |
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Literature, Modern -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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Literature, Modern. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
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Autobiography in literature.
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Autobiography in literature. |
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Biography in literature.
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Biography in literature. |
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Psychic trauma in literature.
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Psychic trauma in literature. |
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Memory in literature.
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Memory in literature. |
| Chronological Term |
1900-1999 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Added Author |
Rippl, Gabriele.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: 9781442646018 1442646012 |
| ISBN |
1442664193 (electronic book) |
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9781442664197 (electronic book) |
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9781442646018 |
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1442646012 |
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