Literary Agency in the Wake of Catastrophe

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dc.identifier	ECF_article_1476
dc.title	Literary Agency in the Wake of Catastrophe. The Canonization of the Literary Responses to Trauma
dc.contributor.author	De Pieri Veronica
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Digital Publishing
dc.type	Research Article
dc.language.iso	en
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/riviste/annali-di-ca-foscari-serie-orientale/2018/1supplement/literary-agency-in-the-wake-of-catastrophe/
dc.description.abstract	Textual agency plays a fundamental role with regard to the literary production devoted to catastrophic events and the trauma they entail; it raises questions about the ethics of the disaster, as if to say the legitimacy of the literary works on the theme. The authorial commitment to bear witness to the events often clashes with the unrepresentability of the event itself: silence and discursivity are both misleading choices in the sense that the first is a real blot on History, while the latter implies to domesticate trauma in order to transpose it into literary forms. This article aims to give relevance to the therapeutic agency of the Literature of the catastrophe and in doing so, it contributes to the re-evaluation of the genre as part of the literary canon.
dc.relation.ispartof	Annali di Ca’ Foscari. Serie orientale
dc.relation.ispartof	Vol. 54 \| December 2018
dc.issued	2018-12-06
dc.dateAccepted	2018-10-09
dc.dateSubmitted	2018-07-11
dc.identifier.issn
dc.identifier.eissn	2385-3042
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.identifier.doi	10.30687/AnnOr/2385-3042/2018/01/029
dc.peer-review	yes
dc.subject	Canon
dc.subject	Canon
dc.subject	Catastrophe
dc.subject	Catastrophe
dc.subject	Fukushima
dc.subject	Fukushima
dc.subject	Literature
dc.subject	Literature
dc.subject	Trauma
dc.subject	Trauma

Research Article
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The Canonization of the Literary Responses to Trauma

Veronica De Pieri Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia

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abstract

Textual agency plays a fundamental role with regard to the literary production devoted to catastrophic events and the trauma they entail; it raises questions about the ethics of the disaster, as if to say the legitimacy of the literary works on the theme. The authorial commitment to bear witness to the events often clashes with the unrepresentability of the event itself: silence and discursivity are both misleading choices in the sense that the first is a real blot on History, while the latter implies to domesticate trauma in order to transpose it into literary forms. This article aims to give relevance to the therapeutic agency of the Literature of the catastrophe and in doing so, it contributes to the re-evaluation of the genre as part of the literary canon.

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Dec. 6, 2018

Accepted

Oct. 9, 2018

Submitted

July 11, 2018

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Keywords: Fukushima • Trauma • Catastrophe • Literature • Canon

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