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Representing the Unimaginable - Narratives of Disaster (Paperback)
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Representing the Unimaginable - Narratives of Disaster (Paperback)
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Finding words and images with which to describe and come to terms
with a disaster is a psychological necessity, but it also
inevitably manifests socio-cultural habits of thought and political
interests. Language shapes, distorts and appropriates an occurrence
that is not just a shocking and all too real destruction of life,
property and the environment, but also a social construct. The
'unrepresentability' of the experience of a disaster and the
textuality of the represented event - and thus also the
contradictions, ruptures and silences inevitably created by the
tensions between 'reality' and 'representation' - are the focus of
the essays collected in this volume. Thirteen contributions by
internationally active researchers in the fields of literary and
cultural studies, history, sociology and philosophy provide
interdisciplinary perspectives on the ways in which we write and
think about the unimaginable.
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