Haunted narratives life writing in an age of trauma
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Haunted narratives [electronic resource] : life writing in an age of trauma / edited by Gabriele Rippl, Philipp Schweighauser, Tiina Kirss, Margit Sutrop, and Therese Steffen.
Seeing ghosts: theorizing haunting in literary texts / Tiina Kirss -- Trauma and Utopia: Benjamin, Adorno, and Elie Wiesel's Night / Philipp Schweighauser -- Richard Wollheim's Germs: life writing as therapy, despite theory / Julia Straub -- Writing childhood, writing lack / Maarja Hollo -- Loquacious silences: Vikram Seth's Two lives and the German language / Nora Anna Escherle -- Unsayable or merely unsaid? / Eneken Laanes -- Voicing trauma in the deportation narratives of Baltic women / Leena Kurvet-Käosaar -- Trauma narratives and national identity / Annie Cottier -- "Metaphors for the Scots today": history and national identity in Scottish drama after 1945 / Stefanie Preuss -- Aspects of post-imperial constructions of nationhood / Eva Rein -- Anecdotalization of memory in Jaan Kross' Paigallend / Eneken Laanes -- Meddling with memory--negating grand narratives / Nora Anna Escherle -- Fighting fear with writing: Christa Wolf's Kindheitsmuster and Ene Mihkelson's Ahasveeruse uni (The sleep of Ahasuerus) / Aija Sakova -- The stigma of the autobiographical / Julia Straub -- The search for the lost parent in Joy Kogawa's Obasan and Ene Mihkelson's Ahasveeruse uni (The sleep of Ahasuerus) / Eva Rein -- Making the silence speak: a critical discussion of trauma transmission and identity formation / Stefanie Preuss -- (Re-)visions of the buried self: childhood trauma and self-narration in Margaret Atwood's Cat's eye / Christa Schönfelder -- Grasping patterns of violence / Aija Sakova -- Nostalgia and redemption in Bernard Kangro's Joonatan novels / Maarja Hollo -- Renegotiations of longing and belonging: exile, memory and nostalgia / Christa Schönfelder -- Haunted whispers from the footnotes: life writing in Raj Kamal Jha's Fireproof / Annie Cottier -- What only fiction can do / Leena Kurvet-Käosaar -- Afterword: Ethical and political aspects of life writing and remembering / Margit Sutrop.
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Title
Haunted narratives [electronic resource] : life writing in an age of trauma / edited by Gabriele Rippl, Philipp Schweighauser, Tiina Kirss, Margit Sutrop, and Therese Steffen.