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A Poetics of Trauma after 9/11: Representing Trauma in a Digitized Present book cover

1st Edition

A Poetics of Trauma after 9/11 Representing Trauma in a Digitized Present

By Katharina Donn Copyright 2017
226 Pages
by Routledge

226 Pages
by Routledge

226 Pages
by Routledge
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The 9/11 attacks brought large-scale violence into the 21 st century with force and have come to epitomize the entanglement of intimate vulnerability and virtual spectacle that is typical of the globalized present. This book works at the intersection of trauma studies, affect theory, and literary studies to offer radically new interpretive frames for interrogating the challenges inherent in... Read more

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Abbreviations



Acknowledgements



Introduction: From Memory to Mediation. Towards a Trauma Theory of the Digitized Present

1 The Unspeakability Thesis Reconsidered



Foreign Bodies: Deconstructing the Freudian Legacy



(Im) Possibilities of Representation: Virtual Trauma and the Real



Trauma Literature beyond Unspeakability: A Tentative Poetics



2 The Ethics of Form: Trauma Literature After 9/11



From the Frame to Critique: Discursive Power in a Context of Cultural Trauma



Vulnerability as Spectacle? Figuring the Fall



Encountering the Face of the Other: Alterity after Trauma



3 Detouring the Singularity of Trauma: Jonathan Safran Foer’s Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close



Records to be made? Silence and Testimony



Historical and Symbolic Archives: Meandering towards the Present Absence of 9/11



9/11 Transnationalized?



4 "Icons of a More Innocent Age"? Art Spiegelman’s In the Shadow of No Towers



"I never Loved those Arrogant Boxes": Enacting Trauma in Comix



Metamorphosing Trauma: 9/11 as the Grotesque



Against the End of Irony: Trauma as Resistance



5 Precarious Bodies: Don DeLillo’s Falling Man



Unstable Sociality: Embodied Patterns of Interconnectedness



The Ethics of Witnessing Terror: Falling into Perception



Resisting Totality: Unsettled Signification and the Anti-Spectacular



6 Trauma in a Virtual World: William Gibson’s Pattern Recognition



Realities of Trauma, the Trauma of Reality: Witnessing as Pattern Recognition



The ‘Footage:’ Video Art and the Negative Sublime



Affect and Globalization: Histories of Violence and Post-Traumatic Encounters



7 Conclusion: Re-Situating the Subject in the Af

Biography

Katharina Donn is a lecturer and postdoctoral fellow at the University of Augsburg, Germany, focusing on trauma and memory in U.S.-American literature, and has held visiting fellowships at the Eccles Centre for American Studies, the Institute of Advanced Studies at University College London, and a visiting professorship at the University of Texas at Austin.

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