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The Complicit Text - Failures of Witnessing in Postwar Fiction (Hardcover)
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The Complicit Text - Failures of Witnessing in Postwar Fiction (Hardcover)
Series: Reading Trauma and Memory
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The Complicit Text: Failures of Witnessing in Postwar Fiction
identifies the causes of complicity in the face of unfolding
atrocities by examining the works of Albert Camus, Milan Kunera,
Kazuo Ishiguro, W. G. Sebald, Thomas Pynchon, and Margaret Atwood.
Ivan Stacy argues that complicity often stems from narrative
failures to bear witness to wrongdoing. However, literary fiction,
he contends, can at once embody and examine forms of complicity on
three different levels: as a theme within literary texts, as a
narrative form, and also as it implicates readers themselves
through empathetic engagement with the text. Furthermore, Stacy
questions what forms of non-complicit action are possible and
explores the potential for productive forms of compromise. Stacy
discusses both individual dilemmas of complicity in the shadow of
World War II and collective complicity in the context of
contemporary concerns, such as the hegemony of neoliberalism and
the climate emergency.
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