Haunted Narratives

Abstract

Introduction: Life Writing in an Age of Trauma Gabriele Rippl (University of Bern)/Philipp Schweighauser (University of Basel)/Therese Steffen (University of Basel) I. Life Writing and Trauma: Theorizing the Vicissitudes of Representing Violence 1. Seeing Ghosts: Theorizing Haunting in Literary Texts - Tiina Kirss (University of Tartu) 2. Trauma and Utopia: Benjamin, Adorno, and Elie Wiesel's Night - Philipp Schweighauser (University of Basel) II. Auto/biographies as Trauma Narratives 3. Richard Wollheim's Germs: Life Writing as Therapy, Despite Theory - Julia Straub (University of Bern) 4. Writing Childhood, Writing Lack - Maarja Hollo (Estonian Literary Museum) 5. Loquacious Silences: Vikram Seth's Two Lives and the German Language - Nora Anna Escherle (University of Bern) 6. Unsayable or Merely Unsaid? - Eneken Laanes (Estonian Academy of Sciences) 7. Voicing Trauma in the Deportation Narratives of Baltic Women - Leena Kurvet-Kaosaar (Tallinn University) 8. Trauma Narratives and National Identity - Annie Cottier (University of Bern) III. Limit-cases: Exploring the Limits of Telling Pain 9. Metaphors for the Scots Today: History and National Identity in Scottish Drama after 1945 - Stefanie Preuss (University of Konstanz) 10. Aspects of Post-Imperial Constructions of Nationhood - Eva Rein (University of Tartu) 11. Anecdotalization of Memory in Jaan Kross' Paigallend - Eneken Laanes (Estonian Academy of Sciences) 12. Meddling with Memory--Negating Grand Narratives - Nora Anna Escherle (University of Bern) 13. Fighting Fear with Writing: Christa Wolf's Kindheitsmuster and Ene Mihkelson's Ahasveeruse uni (The Sleep of Ahasuerus) - Aija Sakova (Tartu University) 14. The Stigma of the Autobiographical - Julia Straub (University of Bern) 15. The Search for the Lost Parent in Joy Kogawa's Obasan and Ene Mihkelson's Ahasveeruse uni (The Sleep of Ahasuerus) - Eva Rein (University of Tartu) 16. Making the Silence Speak: A Critical Discussion of Trauma Transmission and Identity Formation - Stefanie Preuss (University of Konstanz) IV. Fictions of Loss and Trauma 17. (Re-)Visions of the Buried Self: Childhood Trauma and Self-Narration in Margaret Atwood's Cat's Eye - Christa Schonfelder (University of Zurich) 18. Grasping Patterns of Violence - Aija Sakova (Tartu University) 19. Nostalgia and Redemption in Bernard Kangro's Joonatan-Novels - Maarja Hollo (Estonian Literary Museum) 20. Renegotiations of Longing and Belonging: Exile, Memory and Nostalgia - Christa Schonfelder (University of Zurich) 21. Haunted Whispers from the Footnotes: Life Writing in Raj Kamal Jha's Fireproof - Annie Cottier (University of Bern) 22. What Only Fiction Can Do - Leena Kurvet-Kaosaar (Tallinn University) Afterword: Ethical and Political Aspects of Life Writing and Remembering - Margit Sutrop (University of Tartu)