Other people's pain [electronic resource] : narratives of trauma and the question of ethics / Martin Modlinger and Philipp Sonntag (eds).

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Cultural history and literary imagination ; v. 18Publication details: New York : Peter Lang, 2011.Description: vi, 244 pSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 809/.933552 22
LOC classification:
  • PN56.V53 O75 2011eb
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Contents:
Introduction / Martin Modlinger and Philipp Sonntag -- Trauma and ethics: telling the other's story / Colin Davis -- From collective violence to a common future: four models for dealing with a traumatic past / Aleida Assmann -- Trauma studies: contexts, politics, ethics / Susannah Radstone -- Narrating the Holocaust and its legacy: the complexities of identity, trauma and representation in Art Spiegelman's Maus / María Jesús Martínez-Alfaro -- Zero, a gaping mouth: the discourse of the camps in Herta Müller's Atemschaukel between literary theory and political philosophy / Bettina Bannasch -- Trauma, narrative and ethics in recent American fiction / Hubert Zapf -- Trauma as normalcy: pain in Philip Roth's The human stain / Rudolf Freiburg -- Trauma, shame and ethical responsibility for the death of the other in J. M. Coetzee's Waiting for the barbarians / Susana Onega.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Martin Modlinger and Philipp Sonntag -- Trauma and ethics: telling the other's story / Colin Davis -- From collective violence to a common future: four models for dealing with a traumatic past / Aleida Assmann -- Trauma studies: contexts, politics, ethics / Susannah Radstone -- Narrating the Holocaust and its legacy: the complexities of identity, trauma and representation in Art Spiegelman's Maus / María Jesús Martínez-Alfaro -- Zero, a gaping mouth: the discourse of the camps in Herta Müller's Atemschaukel between literary theory and political philosophy / Bettina Bannasch -- Trauma, narrative and ethics in recent American fiction / Hubert Zapf -- Trauma as normalcy: pain in Philip Roth's The human stain / Rudolf Freiburg -- Trauma, shame and ethical responsibility for the death of the other in J. M. Coetzee's Waiting for the barbarians / Susana Onega.

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