Ethics and trauma in contemporary British fiction / edited by Susana Onega and Jean-Michel Ganteau.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Onega, Susana.

Ganteau, Jean-Michel.

Series:

DQR studies in literature ; 48.

DQR studies in literature ; 48

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English fiction--21st century.

English fiction.

English fiction--20th century.

Ethics in literature.

Psychic trauma in literature.

Physical Description:

330 p.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Rodopi, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume is the first book of criticism to provide a systematic analysis of a corpus of emblematic contemporary British fictions from the combined perspective of trauma theory and ethics. Although the fictional work of writers such as Graham Swift has already been approached from this perspective, none of the individual works or authors under analysis in the twelve essays collected in this volume has been given such a systematic and in-depth scrutiny to date. This study, which is addressed to academics and university students of British literature and culture, focuses on the literary representation of trauma in key works by Martin Amis, J. G. Ballard, Pat Barker, John Boyne, Angela Carter, Eva Figes, Alan Hollinghurst, Delia Jarrett-Macauley, A.L. Kennedy, Ian McEwan, Michael Moorcock, Fay Weldon and Jeanette Winterson, within the context of the “ethical turn” in the related fields of literary theory and moral philosophy that has influenced literary criticism over the last three decades, with a special focus on the ethics of alterity, the ethics of truths, and deconstructive ethics.

Contents:

Preliminary material / Editors Ethics and Trauma in Contemporary British Fiction

INTRODUCTION / JEAN-MICHEL GANTEAU and SUSANA ONEGA

READING TRAUMA IN PAT BARKER’S REGENERATION TRILOGY / LENA STEVEKER

THE ETHICAL CLOCK OF TRAUMA IN EVA FIGES’ WINTER JOURNEY / SILVIA PELLICER-ORTÍN

“NOBODY’SMEAT”: REVISITING RAPE AND SEXUAL TRAUMA THROUGH ANGELA CARTER / CHARLEY BAKER

“A NEW ALGEBRA”: THE POETICS AND ETHICS OF TRAUMA IN J.G. BALLARD’S THE ATROCITY EXHIBITION / JAKOB WINNBERG

TRAUMA AS THE NEGATION OF AUTONOMY: MICHAEL MOORCOCK’S MOTHER LONDON / JEAN-MICHEL GANTEAU

WHERE MADNESS LIES: HOLOCAUST REPRESENTATION AND THE ETHICS OF FORM IN MARTIN AMIS’ TIME’S ARROW / MARÍA JESÚS MARTÍNEZ-ALFARO

WORLDWAR II FICTION AND THE ETHICS OF TRAUMA / GERD BAYER

A TERRIBLE BEAUTY: ETHICS, AESTHETICS AND THE TRAUMA OF GAYNESS IN ALAN HOLLINGHURST’S THE LINE OF BEAUTY / JOSÉ M. YEBRA

“THE ETERNAL LOOP OF SELF-TORTURE”: ETHICS AND TRAUMA IN IANMCEWAN’S ATONEMENT / GEORGES LETISSIER

CONJUNCTURES OF UNEASINESS: TRAUMA IN FAY WELDON’S THE HEART OF THE COUNTRY AND IN IAN MCEWAN’S ON CHESIL BEACH / ANGELA LOCATELLI

REPRESENTING THE CHILD SOLDIER: TRAUMA, POSTCOLONIALISM AND ETHICS IN DELIA JARRETTMACAULEY’SMOSES, CITIZEN AND ME / ANNE WHITEHEAD

THE TRAUMA PARADIGM AND THE ETHICS OF AFFECT IN JEANETTE WINTERSON’S THE STONE GODS / SUSANA ONEGA

NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS / Editors Ethics and Trauma in Contemporary British Fiction

INDEX / Editors Ethics and Trauma in Contemporary British Fiction.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-283-16216-4

9786613162168

94-012-0008-4

OCLC:

741264752

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789401200080 DOI