Includes bibliographical references Seeing ghosts: theorizing haunting in literary texts / Tiina KirssTrauma and Utopia: Benjamin, Adorno, and Elie Wiesel's Night / Philipp Schweighauser Richard Wollheim's Germs: life writing as therapy, despite theory / Julia Straub Writing childhood, writing lack / Maarja Hollo Loquacious silences: Vikram Seth's Two lives and the German language / Nora Anna Escherle Unsayable or merely unsaid? / Eneken Laanes Voicing trauma in the deportation narratives of Baltic women / Leena Kurvet-Käosaar Trauma narratives and national identity / Annie Cottier "Metaphors for the Scots today": history and national identity in Scottish drama after 1945 / Stefanie Preuss Aspects of post-imperial constructions of nationhood / Eva Rein Anecdotalization of memory in Jaan Kross' Paigallend / Eneken Laanes Meddling with memory--negating grand narratives / Nora Anna Escherle Fighting fear with writing: Christa Wolf's Kindheitsmuster and Ene Mihkelson's Ahasveeruse uni (The sleep of Ahasuerus) / Aija Sakova The stigma of the autobiographical / Julia Straub The search for the lost parent in Joy Kogawa's Obasan and Ene Mihkelson's Ahasveeruse uni (The sleep of Ahasuerus) / Eva Rein Making the silence speak: a critical discussion of trauma transmission and identity formation / Stefanie Preuss (Re-)visions of the buried self: childhood trauma and self-narration in Margaret Atwood's Cat's eye / Christa Schönfelder Grasping patterns of violence / Aija Sakova Nostalgia and redemption in Bernard Kangro's Joonatan novels / Maarja Hollo Renegotiations of longing and belonging: exile, memory and nostalgia / Christa Schönfelder Haunted whispers from the footnotes: life writing in Raj Kamal Jha's Fireproof / Annie Cottier What only fiction can do / Leena Kurvet-Käosaar Afterword: Ethical and political aspects of life writing and remembering / Margit Sutrop. |
