Terrorizing Images: Trauma and Ekphrasis in Contemporary Literature

Open Access Published by De Gruyter 2020

Terrorizing Images

Trauma and Ekphrasis in Contemporary Literature

Edited by: Charles Ivan Armstrong and Unni Langas

Volume 16 in the series Culture & Conflict

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110693959

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About this book

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.

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Charles I. Armstrong, University of Agder, Norway; Unni Langås, University of Agder, Norway.

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Frontmatter Open Access Download PDF	I
Table of Contents Open Access Download PDF	V
Introduction: Encounters between Trauma and Ekphrasis, Words and Images Charles I. Armstrong and Unni Langås Open Access Download PDF	1
De te fabula narratur! Violence and Representation in Peter Weiss’s The Aesthetics of Resistance Frederik Tygstrup Open Access Download PDF	13
What Does It Mean To Be Human? Speculative Ekphrasis and Anthropocene Trauma in Don DeLillo’s Zero K Øyvind Vågnes Open Access Download PDF	29
The Ordinariness of Trauma: Reconstructing Intertextuality as an Aesthetics of Trauma Joachim Schiedermair Open Access Download PDF	47
Terrorizing Images and Traumatic Anticipation in Michael Cunningham’s The Hours Unni Langås Open Access Download PDF	67
Phantomogenic Ekphrasis: Traumatizing Images in Michael Cunningham’s Specimen Days and Don DeLillo’s Falling Man László Munteán Open Access Download PDF	85
Reenacting Rape in Édouard Louis’s History of Violence Adriana Margareta Dancus Open Access Download PDF	101
Empathic Vision? War Photography, Ekphrasis, and Memory in Bosnian War Literature Stijn Vervaet Open Access Download PDF	117
Remedial Intermediality: Ekphrasis in Sinéad Morrissey’s “The Doctors” Charles I. Armstrong Open Access Download PDF	137
Traumatizing Images of Belfast in Mary Costello’s Novel Titanic Town Stephanie Schwerter Open Access Download PDF	151
Ekphrasis and the Holocaust: Traumatic Images in Jonathan Littell’s The Kindly Ones Christine Berberich Open Access Download PDF	167
White Oblivion: Antarctica and the Suspension of Trauma Karin Sanders Open Access Download PDF	183
Contributors Open Access Download PDF	197
Index Open Access Download PDF	201

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Scholars of Literary Studies, Cultural Studies, Memory Studies, Visual Studies
Pages
- Front matter: 6
- Main content: 204
Keywords: Trauma; ekphrasis; literary studies; image

eBook

Published: September 7, 2020
ISBN: 9783110693959

Hardcover

Published: September 7, 2020
ISBN: 9783110692907