Terrorizing Images : Trauma and Ekphrasis in Contemporary Literature / Charles Ivan Armstrong, Unni Langas.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Langas, Unni

Contributor:

Armstrong, Charles Ivan, Editor.

Langas, Unni, Editor.

Series:

Culture and Conflict

Culture & Conflict ; 16

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (VI, 204 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2020]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

It is broadly accepted that "terrorizing" images are often instrumentalized in periods of conflict to serve political interests. This volume proposes that paying attention to how images of trauma and conflict are described in literary texts, i.e. to the rhetorical practice known as "ekphrasis", is crucial to our understanding of how such images work. The volume's contributors discuss verbal images of trauma and terror in literary texts both from a contemporary perspective and as historical artefacts in order to illuminate the many different functions of ekphrasis in literature. The articles in this volume reflect the vast developments in the field of trauma studies since the 1990s, a field that has recently broadened to include genres beyond the memoir and testimony and that lends itself well to new postcolonial, feminist, and multimedia approaches. By expanding the scholarly understanding of how images of trauma are described, interpreted, and acted out in literary texts, this collected volume makes a significant contribution to both trauma and memory studies, as well as more broadly to cultural studies.

Contents:

Frontmatter

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

Notes:

This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0 https://www.degruyter.com/dg/page/open-access-policy

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 15. Sep 2020)

ISBN:

9783110693959

311069395X

OCLC:

1198929022