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Mary Kelly’s ‘Montage du Désastre’, a Work of Death and Rebirth

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Abstract

Mary Kelly’s The Ballad of Kastriot Rexhepi is a work that recounts an episode from the Kosovo war, reflecting on the paradoxical nature of traumatic events. In my essay, I will examine the anachronistic layering of semantic levels that the work exhibits, assuming that it creates a dialectical image” through the discontinuous relationship between death and rebirth. Hubert Damisch’s concept of the ‘montage du désastre’ helps us to re-read the parable of the child in the title of the work, by reflecting on the mechanisms of the spectacularisation of the chronicle and on the ultimate possibility of giving a ‘figurability’ of the testimony.


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Presentato: 01 Ottobre 2024 | Pubblicato 11 Dicembre 2024 | Lingua: en

Keywords War • Rebirth • Death • Montage • Trauma

Copyright © 2024 Mattia Cucurullo. This is an open-access work distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction is permitted, provided that the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. The license allows for commercial use. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

Permalink http://doi.org/10.30687/978-88-6969-878-1/012


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