This book combines two focal points: trauma and ekphrasis. It responds to the recognition of how terrorizing images permeate the public sphere in connection with traumatic experiences and conflicts and emphasizes the ways in which such images are described and interpreted by words. Contributors analyze the use of verbally represented images in a variety of literary texts, written in several different languages.
Author(s): Charles Ivan Armstrong, Unni Langas
Series: Culture & Conflict
Publisher: De Gruyter
Year: 2020
9783110693959
9783110693959
Table of Contents
Introduction: Encounters between Trauma and Ekphrasis, Words and Images
De te fabula narratur! Violence and Representation in Peter Weiss’s The Aesthetics of Resistance
What Does It Mean To Be Human? Speculative Ekphrasis and Anthropocene Trauma in Don DeLillo’s Zero K
The Ordinariness of Trauma: Reconstructing Intertextuality as an Aesthetics of Trauma
Terrorizing Images and Traumatic Anticipation in Michael Cunningham’s The Hours
Phantomogenic Ekphrasis: Traumatizing Images in Michael Cunningham’s Specimen Days and Don DeLillo’s Falling Man
Reenacting Rape in Édouard Louis’s History of Violence
Empathic Vision? War Photography, Ekphrasis, and Memory in Bosnian War Literature
Remedial Intermediality: Ekphrasis in Sinéad Morrissey’s “The Doctors”
Traumatizing Images of Belfast in Mary Costello’s Novel Titanic Town
Ekphrasis and the Holocaust: Traumatic Images in Jonathan Littell’s The Kindly Ones
White Oblivion: Antarctica and the Suspension of Trauma
Contributors
Index
