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Reconciling Community and Subjective Life: Trauma Testimony as Political Theorizing in the Work of Jean Améry and Imre Kertész

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Abstract

This is an examination of the difficult interplay between the collective pursuit of justice and reconciliation on one hand and the individual subjective experience of trauma on the other, proposing that it be thought as a potentially productive tension. To do so, Zolkos looks at how texts from Jean Améry and Imre Kertész speak to the question of the politics of the past and, ultimately, to the post-foundational notions of community and justice. The text works with issues of reconciliation at a theoretical level that bring together insights from political theory, trauma studies, holoc

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Reconciling community and subjective life: trauma testimony as political theorizing in the work of Jean Améry and Imre Kertész

Żółkoś, Magdalena

Acknowledgments ; Introduction -- Part I: On Jean Améry: "I say 'I'... merely out of habit". Chapter 1 - Resentment, Trauma Subjectivity and the Ordering of Time ; Chapter 2 - "A Wound Was Inflicted on Me"-Améry's Testimony to Torture ; Chapter 3 - Thanatic Reconciliations in On Aging and On Suicide -- Part II: On Imre Kertész: "I don't know how I should continue" ; Chapter 4 - Fateless: Being "Without Fate," Without the Help of Another ; Chapter 5 - Apocalypse, Testimony, and Love in Kaddish for a Child Not Born -- Epilogue - On Irreversibility -- Notes -- Bibliography.

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