Complicity and the Politics of Representation (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Wächter, Cornelia; Wirth, Robert

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores the concept of complicity with regard to the politics of representation. Over the past decades,complicity critique has evolved and become integral to literary and cultural studies. Nonetheless, the concept of complicityremains fundamentally underresearched. Addressing topical and exigent concerns such as white supremacy, war and displacement, child abuse and mentalism, this timely volume explores how producers, texts, consumers and critics can either intentionally or unwittingly become complicit in the creation and perpetuation of social harm - and how the structures supporting such complicities can be resisted. The contributors aim to raise awareness and lay the groundwork for a utopian 'radical unfolding' that enables not just non-complicity, i.e. the refusal to be complicit, but anti-complicity - the active and collective resistance to social harm.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. März 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781786611208
• Artikelnr.: 55352554

Autorenporträt

Cornelia Wächter is Assistant Professor of British Cultural Studies at the Ruhr University Bochum, Germany. She is the author of Place-ing the Prison Officer: The 'Warder' in the British Literary and Cultural Imagination (Brill, 2015) and co-edited Middlebrow and Gender, 1890-1945 (Brill, 2016) with Christoph Ehland.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements / 1. Introduction: Complicity and the Politics of
Representation, Cornelia Wächter / Part I: Narrative Complicities and
Collective Remembering / 2. Complicit Configurations: Narrating the
Partition of India in W.H. Auden's "Partition" and Howard Brenton's Drawing
the Line , Christoph Singer / 3. Complicity on the Small Screen: Ordinary
Germans as Perpetrators in Recent German TV Miniseries on World War II and
the Holocaust, Volker Benkert / 4. Literary Complicity and the Differend:
Naturalizing, Ontologizing, and Self-Referential Representations of
National Socialist Persecution, Lorraine Markotic / 5. Guilt and Autonomy
in Hermann Broch's and Geoffrey Hill's Works, Olaf Berwald / 6. An Illusion
of Absence: The Picturesque and Culpable Ignorance in Kazuo Ishiguro's The
Remains of the Day and The Buried Giant, Ivan Stacy / Part II: Enfoldings
and Unfoldings / A Radical Unfolding: Utopianism Against Complicity, John
Storey / 7. Complicity: Narratives, Articulations and the Politics of
Representation, Paul Reynolds / 8. A Murmur of Indifference to Authorial
Identity in Intellectual Life, Brendan Moran / 9. I spy with my little eye
something complicity simple: 18th-Century Caricature Tricks, Mihaela Irimia
/ Part III: Narrative Complicity Critiques / 10. The Black Counter-Gaze:
Complicity and White Privilege in Claudia Rankine's Citizen, Alexandra
Hartmann / 11. Challenging Complicity in the Context of Mentalism: Mental
Distress Autobiographies and Performance Art, Elisabeth Punzi and Katrin
Röder / 12. Representation of Complicity with Child Sexual Abuse in the
Movies: Spotlight and Doubt, Eli Teram / 13. "...to understand everything
that came her way": Complicity and the Child Protagonist, Elizabeth Gilbert
/ Bibliography / Index