Table of Contents:
Abbreviations
Acknowledgements
Introduction: From Memory to Mediation. Towards a Trauma Theory of the Digitized Present
1 The Unspeakability Thesis Reconsidered
Foreign Bodies: Deconstructing the Freudian Legacy
(Im) Possibilities of Representation: Virtual Trauma and the Real
Trauma Literature beyond Unspeakability: A Tentative Poetics
2 The Ethics of Form: Trauma Literature After 9/11
From the Frame to Critique: Discursive Power in a Context of Cultural Trauma
Vulnerability as Spectacle? Figuring the Fall
Encountering the Face of the Other: Alterity after Trauma
3 Detouring the Singularity of Trauma: Jonathan Safran Foer’s Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
Records to be made? Silence and Testimony
Historical and Symbolic Archives: Meandering towards the Present Absence of 9/11
9/11 Transnationalized?
4 "Icons of a More Innocent Age"? Art Spiegelman’s In the Shadow of No Towers
"I never Loved those Arrogant Boxes": Enacting Trauma in Comix
Metamorphosing Trauma: 9/11 as the Grotesque
Against the End of Irony: Trauma as Resistance
5 Precarious Bodies: Don DeLillo’s Falling Man
Unstable Sociality: Embodied Patterns of Interconnectedness
The Ethics of Witnessing Terror: Falling into Perception
Resisting Totality: Unsettled Signification and the Anti-Spectacular
6 Trauma in a Virtual World: William Gibson’s Pattern Recognition
Realities of Trauma, the Trauma of Reality: Witnessing as Pattern Recognition
The ‘Footage:’ Video Art and the Negative Sublime
Affect and Globalization: Histories of Violence and Post-Traumatic Encounters
7 Conclusion: Re-Situating the Subject in the Af
Katharina Donn is a lecturer and postdoctoral fellow at the University of Augsburg, Germany, focusing on trauma and memory in U.S.-American literature, and has held visiting fellowships at the Eccles Centre for American Studies, the Institute of Advanced Studies at University College London, and a visiting professorship at the University of Texas at Austin.
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