Contributors

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Table of Contents V
3. Introduction: Encounters between Trauma and Ekphrasis, Words and Images 1
4. De te fabula narratur! Violence and Representation in Peter Weiss’s The Aesthetics of Resistance 13
5. What Does It Mean To Be Human? Speculative Ekphrasis and Anthropocene Trauma in Don DeLillo’s Zero K 29
6. The Ordinariness of Trauma: Reconstructing Intertextuality as an Aesthetics of Trauma 47
7. Terrorizing Images and Traumatic Anticipation in Michael Cunningham’s The Hours 67
8. Phantomogenic Ekphrasis: Traumatizing Images in Michael Cunningham’s Specimen Days and Don DeLillo’s Falling Man 85
9. Reenacting Rape in Édouard Louis’s History of Violence 101
10. Empathic Vision? War Photography, Ekphrasis, and Memory in Bosnian War Literature 117
11. Remedial Intermediality: Ekphrasis in Sinéad Morrissey’s “The Doctors” 137
12. Traumatizing Images of Belfast in Mary Costello’s Novel Titanic Town 151
13. Ekphrasis and the Holocaust: Traumatic Images in Jonathan Littell’s The Kindly Ones 167
14. White Oblivion: Antarctica and the Suspension of Trauma 183
15. Contributors 197
16. Index 201