Sublime Violations: Trauma Literature and the Search for Transcendence through Violence

Marie-Luise Kohlke

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Sublime Violations: Trauma Literature and the Search for Transcendence through Violence

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Pages:: 139–158

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789401200387_009

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Trauma literature constructs the violated body as the simultaneous site of total abjection and unexpected transcendence. The confrontation with the self’s imminent annihilation and violent transformation into absolute other-in-death exercises a peculiar fascination. It affords glimpses of the sublime, often mediated through representations of symbolic pietàs, martyrdoms, and revelations. Via close readings of Michael Ondaatje’s Anil’s Ghost and Pat Barker’s The Ghost Road, this chapter explores the encoding of such ‘sublime violations’ and their implications for a politics of resistance and re-humanisation or, conversely, the perpetration of further symbolic violence.

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Creating Destruction

Constructing Images of Violence and Genocide

Series: At the Interface / Probing the Boundaries, Volume: 75

E-Book ISBN:: 9789401200387

Publisher:: Brill

Print Publication Date:: 01 Jan 2011

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