Post-Conflict Literature

Human Rights, Peace, Justice
Herausgeber: Andrews, Chris; McGuire, Matt

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Produktbeschreibung

This book explores the role of literature in the aftermath of political conflict. Essays explore concepts like truth and reconciliation, post-traumatic memory, historical reckoning, therapeutic storytelling, transitional justice, archival memory, and questions about victimhood and reparation. The book focuses on the experience of post-Apartheid South Africa, post-Troubles Northern Ireland, and post-dictatorship Latin America to define a new field for literary studies, and open it up to scholars working in other regional and national contexts. This volume is a valuable resource for scholars of Comparative Literature, Peace and Conflicts Studies, Human Rights, and other disciplines.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 260
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Mai 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 157mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 567g
• ISBN-13: 9781138916302
• ISBN-10: 1138916307
• Artikelnr.: 43675620

Autorenporträt

Chris Andrews is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Western Sydney, Australia. Matt McGuire is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Western Sydney, Australia.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Post Conflict Literature? Chris Andrews and Matt McGuire
Part I. South Africa 1. Truth, Power, and the Role of Literature in
Post-Apartheid South Dorothy Driver 2. Confession, Testimony, and the
Construction of the Subject in Damon Galgut's "An African Sermon" and Ariel
Dorfman's Death and the Maiden Michelle Kelly 3. Problematizing Truth and
Justice: J.M. Coetzee's Post-apartheid Texts Sue Kossew 4. Culture and
Human Rights in Post Conflict South Africa Paul Gready 5. Archiving
Mandela: Curating Memory and Visual Auto/biography in the New South Africa
Kai Easton 6. From Lyric to Lyric: South African Poetry after Apartheid
Jarad Zimbler 7. Haunted Imaginaries: Transition in Nadine Gordimer's South
Africa Tony Simoes da Silva Part II. Northern Ireland 8. Hope, History and
Rhyme: Poetry and the Legacy of the Troubles Matt McGuire 9. Representing
Memory from Conflict: The Prisons Memory Archive Cahal McLaughlin 10. Egg
and Sky: A Phenomenological Reading of Deirdre Madden's One by One in the
Darkness Richard Rankin Russell 11. Metaphors and Metonyms: Culture and
Education in the Good Friday Agreement Eamonn Hughes 12. Affective States:
The Cultural Politics of Optimism in Northern Irish Fiction Caroline
Magennis 13. "Absent and yet somehow present": "the Disappeared" in
Contemporary Northern Irish Photography and Writing Stefanie Lehner Part
III. South America 14. Incomprehensible Crimes, Literature, and the
Definition of Enforced Disappearance Claret Vargas 15. Rodrigo Rey Rosa and
the Perils of Truth Recovery Chris Andrews 16. The Brazilian Dictatorship
and the Amazon: Persistence of a Colonial Model Idelber Avelar 17. From
Private to Public Witnessing: Transitional Justice and the Revision of
Official Memory of the Dirty War in Argentina Michael Humphrey and Estela
Valverde 18. Allegories of Impunity: Revenge in the Post-dictatorial
Brazilian Novel Rebecca J. Atencio 19. Post-conflict Argentina: Young
Authors Reflect on the Nineties Ana Ros Part IV. Other Contexts 20.
Therapeutic Storytelling or Fictionalised Pathography?: Autobiographical
Spy Fiction by Former Stasi Agents Alison Lewis 21. Literature, Conflict,
and the Pursuit of Justice: Memoirs from Palestine and Sierra Leone
Rosanne Kennedy 22. "Experiencing Some Tense in Addition to the Present":
9/11 and Marking Trauma in Literature Shane Alcobia-Murphy 23. Tracing the
Missing: Digital Storytelling as Historical Narrative Milissa Deitz 24.
Justice, the Confessional, and the Violin: Jaume Cabre's Confessions
Magdalena Zolkos