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When looking at how trauma is represented in literature and the arts, we tend to focus on the weight of the past. In this book, Amir Eshel suggests that this retrospective gaze has trapped us in a search for reason in the madness of the twentieth century's catastrophes at the expense of literature's prospective vision. Considering several key literary works, Eshel argues in Futurity that by grappling with watershed events of modernity, these works display a future-centric engagement with the past that opens up the present to new political, cultural, and ethical possibilities-what h
History in literature. --- German literature --- Hebrew literature --- Histoire --- Littérature allemande --- Littérature hébraïque --- History and criticism. --- Dans la littérature --- Histoire et critique --- History in literature --- Jews --- Jewish literature --- History and criticism --- Literature --- E-books --- Dans la littérature. --- Histoire et critique. --- Histoire (discipline) --- trauma, modernity, contemporary literature, criticism, literary theory, future, jewish-israeli writers, israel, jewish state, zionism, black dogs, ian mcewan, diary of a bad year, coetzee, war, holocaust, iraq, german, hebrew, gunter grass, expansion, becoming, tin drum, my century, crabwalk, peeling the onion, retrospection, past, nostalgia, guilt, memory, care ethics, heidegger, imagination, dissent, fascism, nazi, unsaid, silence, amends, utopia, cormac mccarthy, philip roth, paul auster, nonfiction, yehoshua kenaz, david grossman.
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