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Auteur(s) : Tracy, Dale (1984-....)
Titre(s) : With the witnesses [Texte imprimé] : poetry, compassion, and claimed experience / Dale Tracy
Publication : Montreal : McGill-Queen's university press, 2017
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (IX-285 p.) ; 24 cm
Comprend : Introduction ; A contagious notion of trauma ; Community and poetry's maps ; Compassion across contexts : substitution, incorporation, and juxtaposition ; Accumulating suffering : waiting without end ; Signing skeletons : relational structures of the actual and artistic ; Conclusion.
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-278) and index
"Trauma theory dominates contemporary ideas about ethical response to suffering. Yet,
trauma theory, as it has been adopted by literary and cultural studies, has harmful
effects. In With the Witnesses, Dale Tracy argues that poetry's compassionate strategies
offer an alternative approach to engaging not only suffering in art but suffering
in general. Emphasizing inaccessible histories, unspeakable suffering, and unconscious
witnessing, trauma theory leads readers to claim others' suffering through empathic
identification. Understood through trauma theory, witness poetry--poetry responding
to social suffering--appears to make traumatic traces contagiously available to readers.
With the Witnesses interrogates this metaphoric logic in which readers identify with
a speaker, placing themselves into the position of witness. Instead, Tracy finds that
witness poems follow a metonymic logic: contiguity rather than substitution, nearness
rather than likeness, and waiting in relationship rather than claiming understanding.
Compassion means feeling with--not as--another. Poems responding to diverse national
and transnational contexts of atrocity, conflict, and marginalization guide With the
Witnesses outside of existing frameworks into compassionate response to suffering.
With the Witnesses follows each poem as a unique theory of compassion and arrives
at a place where a witness can stand with those who suffer without standing in for
them."
Sujet(s) : Poésie -- 20e siècle -- Thèmes, motifs
Poésie -- 2000-.... -- Thèmes, motifs
Compassion -- Dans la littérature
Traumatisme psychique -- Dans la littérature
Mémoire -- Dans la littérature
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780773550278. - ISBN 0773550275. - ISBN 9780773550285. - ISBN 0773550283. - ISBN 9780773550292 (erroné). - ISBN 0773550291 (erroné). - ISBN 9780773550308 (erroné). - ISBN 0773550305 (erroné)
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FRBNF45284090
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