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Trauma Plots: Reading Contemporary Canadian First World War Fiction in a Comparative Perspective
Ist Teil von
Canadian literature, 2019-06 (238), p.47-182
Ort / Verlag
Vancouver: The University of British Columbia - Canadian Literature
Erscheinungsjahr
2019
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Quelle
Alma/SFX Local Collection
Beschreibungen/Notizen
[...]images of mud, craters, and wire, as well as shell-shocked soldiers cowering in the trenches to clamber heroically "over the top," have become part of a transnational memory of the Great War (Sokołowska-Paryż and Löschnigg 7-8).4 Yet, the centrality of trauma in recent World War I fiction is also a product of the "wound culture" characteristic of late modernity, what Mark Seltzer calls "the public fascination with torn and opened bodies and torn and opened persons, a collective gathering around shock, trauma, and the wound" (3). [...]according to Susanna Onega and JeanMichel Ganteau, drawing the reader's attention "to the wound of the Other, or to the Other as wound," the spectacle of trauma creates a community of suffering that redefines humanity as a relational concept (12). [...]Deafening provides a particularly affecting testimony of the emotional pain of medical personnel when confronted with mutilation and mass death at the front. [...]the number of literary responses to the conflict by French Canadians is limited (see Djebabla-Brun).