Haunted Narratives

Haunted Narratives

Exploring life writing from quite a lot of cultural contexts, Haunted Narratives supplies new insights into how people and communities throughout time and house take care of traumatic experiences and haunting reminiscences. From the views of trauma principle, reminiscence research, gender research, literary research, philosophy, and post-colonial research, the quantity stresses the lingering, haunting presence of the previous within the current. The contributors deal with the psychological, moral, and representational difficulties concerned in narrative negotiations of traumatic reminiscences. Haunted Narratives focuses on life writing within the broadest sense of the time period: biographies and autobiographies that take care of traumatic experiences, autobiographically impressed fictions on loss and trauma, and limit-cases that transcend clear-cut distinctions between the factual and the fictional. In discussing texts as numerous as Toni Morrison’s Beloved , Vikram Seth’s Two Lives , deportation narratives of Baltic girls, Christa Wolf’s Kindheitsmuster , Pleasure Kogawa’s Obasan , and Ene Mihkelson’s Ahasveeruse uni , the contributors add considerably to present debates on life writing, trauma, and reminiscence; the contested notion of “cultural trauma”; and the transferability of clinical-psychological notions to the examine of literature and tradition.

By Gabriele Rippl, Philipp Schweighauser, Tiina Kirss, Margit Sutrop & Therese Steffen

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