Traumatic Memory and the Ethical, Political and Transhistorical Functions of Literature

Book Overview

​Introduction.- History Become Memory: The Dante Sexcentenary and World War I in the German Press.- On Poetic Violence: W. B. Yeats's "Leda and the Swan" and C?sar Vallejo's "Vusco volvvver de golpe el golpe.".- Holocaust Trauma between the National and the Transnational: Reflections on History's "Broken Mirror.".- Wandering Memory, Wandering Jews: Generic Hybridity and the Construction of Jewish Memory in Linda Grant's works.- .- Self-representation and the Impossibility of (Re) membering in Jamaica Kincaid's The Autobiography of My Mother.- Trauma, Screen Memories, Safe Spaces, and Productive Melancholia in Toni Morrison's Home.- Conclusion.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319856154
• ISBN13: 9783319856155
• Release Date: May 2018
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 331 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 8.3"