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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Caruth, Cathy (1955-....)
Titre(s) : Literature in the ashes of history [Texte imprimé] / Cathy Caruth
Publication : Baltimore : Johns Hopkins university press, 2013
Description matérielle : xiv, 129 pages ; 24 cm
Comprend : Part I. Literature and the life drive : Parting words: trauma, silence and survival : Sigmund Freud, Beyond the pleasure principle ; The claims of the dead: history, haunted property and the law : Honoré de Balzac, Colonel Chabert ; Part II. After the end : Lying and history : Hannah Arendt, "Truth and politics" and "Lying in politics" ; Disappearing history: scenes of trauma in the theater of human rights : Ariel Dorfman, Death and the maiden ; Psychoanalysis in the ashes of history : Wilhelm Jensen, Sigmund Freud, and Jacques Derrida ; Afterword.
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (pages 93-121) and index
"Cathy Caruth juxtaposes the writings of psychoanalysts, literary and political theorists,
and literary authors who write in a century faced by a new kind of history, one that
is made up of events that seem to undo, rather than produce, their own remembrance.
At the heart of each chapter is the enigma of a history that, in its very unfolding,
seems to be slipping away before our grasp. What does it mean for history to disappear?
And what does it mean to speak of a history that disappears? These questions, Caruth
suggests, lie at the center of the psychoanalytic texts that frame this book, as well
as the haunting stories and theoretical arguments that resonate with each other in
profound and surprising ways. In the writings of Honor e de Balzac, Hannah Arendt,
Ariel Dorfman, Wilhelm Jensen, Sigmund Freud, and Jacques Derrida, we encounter, across
different stakes and different languages, a variety of narratives that bear witness
not simply to the past but also to the pasts we have not known and that repeatedly
return us to a future that remains beyond imagination. These stories of trauma cannot
be limited to the catastrophes they name, and the theory of catastrophic history may
ultimately be written in a language that already lingers in a time that comes to us
from the other side of the disaster."--Publisher's description
Sujet(s) : Littérature et histoire
Traumatisme psychique -- Dans la littérature
Mémoire collective -- Dans la littérature
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781421411545. - ISBN 9781421411552. - ISBN 1421411547. - ISBN 1421411555 (rel.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb442760844
Notice n° :
FRBNF44276084
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