Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Miller, Nancy K., 1941-
2. Tougaw, Jason Daniel.

Description

1. 287 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Subject

1. Suffering
2. Autobiography
3. Psychic trauma
4. Victims > Biography > History and criticism

Contents

1. Introduction : extremities / Nancy K. Miller and Jason Tougaw -- Consuming trauma, or, The pleasures of merely circulating / Patricia Yaeger -- Between the extreme and the everyday : Ruth Kliger's traumatic realism / Michael Rothberg -- Marked by memory : feminist reflections on trauma and transmission / Marianne Hirsch -- Orphaned memories, foster-writing, phantom pain : the fragments affair / Ross Chambers -- Prosopopoeia and holocaust poetry in English : the case of Sylvia Plath / Susan Gubar -- Holocaust testimony, national memory / Orly Lubin -- Unbearable witness : toward a politics of listening / Wendy Hui Kyong Chun -- Testimony and the subjects of aids memoirs / Jason Tougaw -- Off my chest / Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick -- Memory stains : Annie Ernaux's shame / Nancy K. Miller -- After Lot's daughters : Kathryn Harrison and the making of memory / Laura Frost -- The aryan boy / Wayne Koestenbaum -- A palinode on photography and the transsexual real / Jay Prosser -- Writing wrong / Sandra M. Gilbert.

Call number

1. JFE 02-17560

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Title

1. Extremities : trauma, testimony, and community / edited by Nancy K. Miller and Jason Tougaw.

Imprint

1. Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 2002.

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added author

1. Miller, Nancy K., 1941-
2. Tougaw, Jason Daniel.

LCCN

1. 2001005921

ISBN

1. 0252027434 (cloth : alk. paper)
2. 0252070542 (paper : alk. paper)

Research call number

1. JFE 02-17560