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Contemporary trauma narratives : liminality and the ethics of form

Title: Contemporary trauma narratives : liminality and the ethics of form / Edited by Susana Onega and Jean-Michel Ganteau.
Publication: New York : Routledge, 2014.

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viii, 253 pages; 24 cm.

Summary

"This book provides a comprehensive compilation of essays on the relationship between formal experimentation and ethics in a number of generically hybrid or "liminal" narratives dealing with individual and collective traumas, running the spectrum from the testimonial novel and the fictional autobiography to the fake memoir, written by a variety of famous, more neglected contemporary British, Irish, US, Canadian, and German writers. Building on the psychological insights and theorizing of the fathers of trauma studies (Janet, Freud, Ferenczi) and of contemporary trauma critics and theorists, the articles examine the narrative strategies, structural experimentations and hybridizations of forms, paying special attention to the way in which the texts fight the unrepresentability of trauma by performing rather than representing it. The ethicality or unethicality involved in this endeavor is assessed from the combined perspectives of the non-foundational, non-cognitive, discursive ethics of alterity inspired by Emmanuel Levinas, and the ethics of vulnerability. This approach makes Contemporary Trauma Narratives an excellent resource for scholars of contemporary literature, trauma studies and literary theory"--

Series Statement

Routledge interdisciplinary perspectives on literature ; 27

Uniform Title

Routledge interdisciplinary perspectives on literature ; 27.

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Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Part I. Ethics and Generic Hybridity -- Part II. Ethics and the Aesthetics of Excess -- Part III. Ethics and Structural Experimentation.

Call Number

JFE 14-6158

ISBN

9781138024496 (hbk)
113802449X (hbk)
9781315774534 (ebk) (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2013045919

OCLC

863684139

Title

Contemporary trauma narratives : liminality and the ethics of form / Edited by Susana Onega and Jean-Michel Ganteau.

Publisher

New York : Routledge, 2014.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Routledge interdisciplinary perspectives on literature ; 27

Routledge interdisciplinary perspectives on literature ; 27.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Ganteau, Jean-Michel, editor.

Onega Jaén, Susana, editor.

Research Call Number

JFE 14-6158

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