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The Writing Of The Disaster
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Author : Maurice Blanchot
language : en
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Release Date : 2015-11
The Writing Of The Disaster written by Maurice Blanchot and has been published by U of Nebraska Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-11 with Literary Criticism categories.
Modern history is haunted by the disasters of the century--world wars, concentration camps, Hiroshima, and the Holocaust--grief, anger, terror, and loss beyond words, but still close, still impending. How can we write or think about disaster when by its very nature it defies speech and compels silence, burns books and shatters meaning? The Writing of the Disaster reflects upon efforts to abide in disaster's infinite threat. First published in French in 1980, it takes up the most serious tasks of writing: to describe, explain, and redeem when possible, and to admit what is not possible. Neither offers consolation. Maurice Blanchot has been praised on both sides of the Atlantic for his fiction and criticism. The philosopher Emmanuel Levinas once remarked that Blanchot's writing is a "language of pure transcendence, without correlative." Literary theorist and critic Geoffrey Hartman remarked that Blanchot's influence on contemporary writers "cannot be overestimated."
Disaster Writing
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Author : Mark D. Anderson
language : en
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Release Date : 2011-10-17
Disaster Writing written by Mark D. Anderson and has been published by University of Virginia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-10-17 with Literary Criticism categories.
In the aftermath of disaster, literary and other cultural representations of the event can play a role in the renegotiation of political power. In Disaster Writing, Mark D. Anderson analyzes four natural disasters in Latin America that acquired national significance and symbolism through literary mediation: the 1930 cyclone in the Dominican Republic, volcanic eruptions in Central America, the 1985 earthquake in Mexico City, and recurring drought in northeastern Brazil. Taking a comparative and interdisciplinary approach to the disaster narratives, Anderson explores concepts such as the social construction of risk, landscape as political and cultural geography, vulnerability as the convergence of natural hazard and social marginalization, and the cultural mediation of trauma and loss. He shows how the political and historical contexts suggest a systematic link between natural disaster and cultural politics.
Disasters Vulnerability And Narratives
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Author : Kasia Mika
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2018-07-17
Disasters Vulnerability And Narratives written by Kasia Mika and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-07-17 with Science categories.
This book uses narrative responses to the 2010 Haiti earthquake as a starting point for an analysis of notions of disaster, vulnerability, reconstruction and recovery. The turn to a wide range of literary works enables a composite comparative analysis, which encompasses the social, political and individual dimensions of the earthquake. This book focuses on a vision of an open-ended future, otherwise than as a threat or fear. Mika turns to concepts of hinged chronologies, slow healing and remnant dwelling. Weaving theory with attentive close-readings, the book offers an open-ended framework for conceptualising post-disaster recovery and healing. These processes happen at different times and must entail the elimination of compound vulnerabilities that created the disaster in the first place. Challenging characterisations of the region as a continuous catastrophe this book works towards a bold vision of Haiti’s and the Caribbean’s futures. The study shows how narratives can extend some of the key concepts within discipline-bound approaches to disasters, while making an important contribution to the interface between disaster studies, postcolonial ecocriticism and Haitian Studies.
The Writing Of Natural Disaster In Europe 1500 1826
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Author : Sandhya Patel
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2022-12-12
The Writing Of Natural Disaster In Europe 1500 1826 written by Sandhya Patel and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-12-12 with History categories.
This book explores reactions to and representations of natural disasters in early modern Europe. The contributors illustrate how the cultural production of the period - in manuals, treatises, sermons, travelogues and fiction - grappled with environmental catastrophe. Crucially, they interrogate how people in the early modern era rationalized and mediated the threat of events like plagues, great frosts, storms, floods and earthquakes. A vital contribution to environmental history, this book highlights the parallels between early modern responses to natural disaster and climate anxiety in our own era.
The Writing Of Disaster
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Author : Leith Morton
language : en
Publisher: Neuere Lyrik. Interkulturelle und interdisziplinäre Studien
Release Date : 2019
The Writing Of Disaster written by Leith Morton and has been published by Neuere Lyrik. Interkulturelle und interdisziplinäre Studien this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019 with Disasters categories.
This book examines literary representations of war, flood and earthquakes in twentieth and twenty-first century Japan using trauma as a focus. The book focuses mainly on poetry but also analyzing various prose works. This topic has been explored previously by scholars of European literature but rarely in studies of modern Japanese literature.
Writing Disaster In South Asian Literature And Culture
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Author : Sk Sagir Ali
language : en
Publisher: Lexington Books
Release Date : 2024-03-18
Writing Disaster In South Asian Literature And Culture written by Sk Sagir Ali and has been published by Lexington Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-03-18 with Literary Criticism categories.
This book examines disaster events (both man-made and natural) as represented in South Asian literature and culture. It attempts to locate the intricate ways in which disaster representation in literature and culture evince a core of conditional empathy and cosmopolitan imagination that are already dictated by statist regimes of power.
Writing Arctic Disaster
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Author : Adriana Craciun
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2016-03-10
Writing Arctic Disaster written by Adriana Craciun and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-03-10 with History categories.
This fascinating study examines how Victorian fixation on disastrous Northwest Passage expeditions has conditioned our understanding of the Arctic and Polar exploration.
Writing Arctic Disaster
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Author : Adriana Craciun
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2016-03-17
Writing Arctic Disaster written by Adriana Craciun and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-03-17 with Literary Criticism categories.
How did the Victorian fixation on the disastrous John Franklin expedition transform our understanding of the Northwest Passage and the Arctic? Today we still tend to see the Arctic and the Northwest Passage through nineteenth-century perspectives, which focused on the discoveries of individual explorers, their illustrated books, visual culture, imperial ambitions, and high-profile disasters. However, the farther back one looks, the more striking the differences appear in how Arctic exploration was envisioned. Writing Arctic Disaster uncovers a wide range of exploration cultures: from the manuscripts of secretive corporations like the Hudson's Bay Company, to the nationalist Admiralty and its innovative illustrated books, to the searches for and exhibits of disaster relics in the Victorian era. This innovative study reveals the dangerous afterlife of this Victorian conflation of exploration and disaster, in the geopolitical significance accruing around the 2014 discovery of Franklin's ship Erebus in the Northwest Passage.
The Writing Of Natural Disaster In Europe 1500 1826
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Author : Sandhya Patel
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2023
The Writing Of Natural Disaster In Europe 1500 1826 written by Sandhya Patel and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023 with categories.
This book explores reactions to and representations of natural disasters in early modern Europe. The contributors illustrate how the cultural production of the period - in manuals, treatises, sermons, travelogues and fiction - grappled with environmental catastrophe. Crucially, they interrogate how people in the early modern era rationalized and mediated the threat of events like plagues, great frosts, storms, floods and earthquakes. A vital contribution to environmental history, this book highlights the parallels between early modern responses to natural disaster and climate anxiety in our own era. Sandhya Patel is Senior Lecturer in Eighteenth-Century Studies at Université Clermont Auvergne, France. Sophie Chiari-Lasserre is Professor of Early Modern English Literature at Université Clermont Auvergne, France.
The Power Of The Story
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Author : Vincent Joos
language : en
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Release Date : 2023-04-14
The Power Of The Story written by Vincent Joos and has been published by Berghahn Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-04-14 with Social Science categories.
A cross-disciplinary volume that combines and puts into dialogue perspectives on disasters, this book includes contributions from anthropology, history, cultural studies, sociology, and literary studies. Offering a rich and diverse set of arguments and analyses on the ever-relevant theme of catastrophe in the circum-Caribbean, it will encourage debate and collaboration between scholars working on disasters from a range of disciplinary perspectives.