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Author:   Jean-Michel Ganteau (Université Paul Valéry, France) ,  Susana Onega (University of Zaragoza, Spain)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.490kg
ISBN:  

9781138547896

ISBN 10:   1138547891
Pages:   264
Publication Date:   05 February 2018
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

"Introduction Performing the Void: Liminality and the Ethics of Form in Contemporary Trauma Narratives Jean-Michel Ganteau and Susana Onega Part 1: Ethics and Generic Hybridity 1. Learning from Fakes: Memoir, Confessional Ethics, and the Limits of Genre Leigh Gilmore 2. "". . . with a foot in both worlds"": The Liminal Ethics of Jenny Diski’s Postmodern Fables Maria Grazia Nicolosi 3. Witnessing without Witnesses: Atwood’s Oryx and Crake as Limit-Case of Fictional Testimony Marie-Luise Kohlke 4. ""I do remember terrible dark things, and loss, and noise"": Historical Trauma and its Narrative Representation in Sebastian Barry’s The Secret Scripture Rudolf Freiburg Part 2: Ethics and the Aesthetics of Excess 5. Vulnerable Form and Traumatic Vulnerability: Jon McGregor's Even the Dogs Jean-Michel Ganteau 6. Ethics, Aesthetics and History in Lawrence Durrell’s Avignon Quintet Dianne Vipond 7. The Ethics of Breaking up the Family Romance in David Mitchell’s Number9Dream Gerd Bayer 8. ""circling and circling and circling. . .whirligogs"": A Knotty Novel for a Tangled Object Trauma in Will Self’s Umbrella Georges Letissier Part 3: Ethics and Structural Experimentation 9. Family Archive Fever: Daniel Mendelsohn's The Lost Marc Amfreville 10. ""The Roche limit"": Digression and Return in W. G. Sebald’s The Rings of Saturn Ivan Stacy 11. ""Separateness and Connectedness"": Generational Trauma and the Ethical Impulse in Anne Karpf’s The War After: Living with the Holocaust Silvia Pellicer-Ortín 12. Hybridity, Montage and the Rhetorics and Ethics of Suffering in Anne Michaels’s Fugitive Pieces Susana Onega"

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`An original collection which will make a significant contribution to the study of literature and trauma' Susan Derwin, Interdisciplinary Humanities Center, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA

'An original collection which will make a significant contribution to the study of literature and trauma' Susan Derwin, Interdisciplinary Humanities Center, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA

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Susana Onega is Professor of English at the University of Zaragoza, Spain. She is a member of the Academia Europaea, a former Honorary Research Fellow at Birkbeck College, and the Head of a research team currently working on ethics and trauma. Jean-Michel Ganteau teaches British literature at the Université Montpellier 3, France. He is the main editor of the journal Etudes britanniques contemporaines and the co-editor of the ‘Present Perfect’ series (PULM).

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