Complicity and the Politics of Representation (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Wächter, Cornelia; Wirth, Robert

• Format: PDF

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: 282
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. März 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798881855499
• Artikelnr.: 74835287

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. Robert Wirth is a Research Assistant in the Department of English and American Studies at the University of Paderborn, Germany, lecturing in English Language and British Cultural and Literary Studies.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: Complicity and the Politics of Representation
Cornelia Wächter
2. The Chapters
Cornelia Wächter and Robert Wirth
PART I: NARRATIVE COMPLICITIES AND COLLECTIVE REMEMBERING
3. Complicit Configurations: Narrating the Partition of India in Auden,
Madhvani and Brenton
Christoph Singer
4. Complicity on the Small Screen: Ordinary Germans as Perpetrators in
Recent German TV Miniseries on World War II and the Holocaust
Volker Benkert
5. Literary Complicity and the Differend: Naturalizing, Ontologizing, and
Self-Referential Representations of National Socialist Persecution
Lorraine Markotic
6. Guilt and Autonomy in Geoffrey Hill's and Hermann Broch's Works
Olaf Berwald
7. 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
8. A Radical Unfolding: Utopianism Against Complicity
John Storey
9. Complicity: Narratives, Articulations and the Politics of Repres