Includes bibliographical references Tiina KirssTrauma and Utopia: Benjamin, Adorno, and Elie Wiesel's Night / Philipp Schweighauser: Seeing ghosts: theorizing haunting in literary texts Julia Straub: Richard Wollheim's Germs: life writing as therapy, despite theory Maarja Hollo: Writing childhood, writing lack Nora Anna Escherle: Loquacious silences: Vikram Seth's Two lives and the German language Eneken Laanes: Unsayable or merely unsaid? Leena Kurvet-Käosaar: Voicing trauma in the deportation narratives of Baltic women Annie Cottier: Trauma narratives and national identity Stefanie Preuss: "Metaphors for the Scots today": history and national identity in Scottish drama after 1945 Eva Rein: Aspects of post-imperial constructions of nationhood Eneken Laanes: Anecdotalization of memory in Jaan Kross' Paigallend Nora Anna Escherle: Meddling with memory--negating grand narratives Aija Sakova: Fighting fear with writing: Christa Wolf's Kindheitsmuster and Ene Mihkelson's Ahasveeruse uni (The sleep of Ahasuerus) Julia Straub: The stigma of the autobiographical Eva Rein: The search for the lost parent in Joy Kogawa's Obasan and Ene Mihkelson's Ahasveeruse uni (The sleep of Ahasuerus) Stefanie Preuss: Making the silence speak: a critical discussion of trauma transmission and identity formation Christa Schönfelder: (Re-)visions of the buried self: childhood trauma and self-narration in Margaret Atwood's Cat's eye Aija Sakova: Grasping patterns of violence Maarja Hollo: Nostalgia and redemption in Bernard Kangro's Joonatan novels Christa Schönfelder: Renegotiations of longing and belonging: exile, memory and nostalgia Annie Cottier: Haunted whispers from the footnotes: life writing in Raj Kamal Jha's Fireproof Leena Kurvet-Käosaar: What only fiction can do Margit Sutrop.: Afterword: Ethical and political aspects of life writing and remembering |
