Between the urge to know and the need to deny

trauma and ethics in contemporary British and American literature

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Between the urge to know and the need to deny

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Table of Contents

Introduction: between the urge to known [sic.] and the need to deny / Dolores Herrero and Sonia Baelo-Allué
Framing trauma and ethics. Disquieted negative capability: the ethics of trauma in contemporary literature / Jean-Michel Ganteau
"That was their deal" trauma narratives' ethical re-framings / Laurie Vickroy
Trauma, gender and identity. Barred from the sublime: structural trauma and gender socialisation in Jenefer Shute's Life-size / Mónica Calvo
Narratives of maternal loss in contemporary women's writing: Julie Myerson's The story of you / Sonya Andermahr
Trauma and silence in Brian McCabe's "Say something" /Jessica Aliaga
Between individual and collective trauma: narrative erasures in Fanny Howe's The deep north /Antoine Cazé
The belated trauma of AIDS in Alan Hollinghurst's The swimming-pool library /José ma. Yebra-Pertusa
Trauma and genre. Experimental fiction and trauma studies: the case of Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five / Francisco Collado-Rodríguez
Apocalypse, memory and survival: a reading of Cormac McCarthy's The road as trauma narrative / Paula Martín
Gothic and trauma in Shirley Jackson's We have always lived in the castle / Marita Nadal
Living with other people's ghosts: Patrick McGrath's Trauma / Jocelyn Dupont
Masking and narrating trauma in Jane Yolen's Briar Rose: a holocaust fairy tale / María Jesús Martínez-Alfaro
The circular memory of writing. A reading of American intertexts in Ruth Klüger's Landscapes of memory. A holocaust girlhood remembered /Luisa Juárez
"To know, but not to know": myth and the working through of trauma in Eva Figes' Tales of innocence and experience / Silvia Pellicer-Ortín
The paradoxical foregrounding of the intimate in the representation of a national trauma: 9/11, according to Don DeLillo / Marc Amfreville
Individual trauma representation in graphic novels. The case of Paul Hornschemeier's Mother, come home and Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean's Signal to noise / Andrés Romero-Jódar
List of contributors.

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Includes bibliographical references.

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PR888.E67 B47 2011, PR478.E79 B47 2011, PE25 .A5 no.413, PR888.E67B47 2011

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268 p. :
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268

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OL25028890M
ISBN 10
3825358844
ISBN 13
9783825358846
LCCN
2011468562
OCLC/WorldCat
746874200
Deutsche National Bibliothek
1010501097

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