Traces of Trauma in W. G. Sebald and Christoph Ransmayr

by Dora Osborne

Overview

This book offers the first full-length study of W. G. Sebald and Christoph Ransmayr and their complicated relation to the traumatic traces of National Socialism. It examines the different ways in which the traces of a traumatic past mark their narratives.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780367601935
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	06/30/2020
Pages:	200
Product dimensions:	6.88(w) x 9.69(h) x (d)

About the Author

Dora Osborne

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements ix

Abbreviations x

Introduction: Post-Postwar Literature 1

1 Traces of Trauma 27

2 The Terrors of Ice and Darkness: The Case of the Ice-Man 46

3 'Narbenübersat': An Excess of Traces in The Dog King 75

4 Displacement, Dysfunction, and Erasure in The Emigrants 101

5 Blind Spots: Austerlitz 127

Conclusion 159

Bibliography 166

Index 181