
Verlagstext:
„A collection of essays by an international group of scholars, The Edges of Trauma: Explorations in Visual Art and Literature addresses the vast cultural and discursive construction that trauma has become in recent decades. Unravelling aspects of representing, narrating, testifying to trauma and of sharing or conveying traumatic non-experience, many of the essays offer new perspectives on traditionally central topics of trauma studies, including shellshock, sexual abuse, the Holocaust, AIDS and 9/11, or on canonical trauma texts, such as Art Spiegelman’s Maus, W. G. Sebald’s Austerlitz and Virginia Woolf’s autobiographical writings.
… Félix González-Torres’s candy-spills, the photography of Peter Piller and Ori Gersht …“
Buchinfo:
Tamás Bényei, Alexandra Stara (Hrsg.):
The Edges of Trauma. Explorations in Visual Art and Literatur
Newcastle upon Tye 2014, Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 978-1-4438-5342-2, Hardcover mit Schutzumschlag
224 Seiten, wenige Abbildungen in den Texten, 15 cm x 21 cm
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