What happens in the wake of the event? Is the event’s aftermath always characterised by the experience of disorder, fragmentation, and impermanence? Or, alternatively, can aftermath be seen as a new growth, a second crop of grass that can be sown and reaped and which gives rise to a new integrity, a new unity? The volume’s twenty-three essays by scholars from Australia, France, Germany, India, Ireland, Luxembourg, New Zealand, Poland, Spain, and the United States re-visit the notion and representation of aftermath, understood here widely as a consequence/result/after-effect of a seminal event (to an individual, a community, society, regions or nations), and explore its transformative and life-changing characteristics. While acknowledging disastrous or catastrophic consequences of the event, Aftermath argues in favour of recognising some rejuvenating potential of its after-effects.
Topographies of (Post)Modernity: Studies in 20th and 21st Century Literature in English is a bilingual, English-Polish book series dedicated to publishing original research on 20th and 21st century literature in English. Monographs and collective volumes in the series address, but are not restricted to, the following research areas: literary genre studies, comparative literature, cultural poetics and transversality of ideas, as well as transnationalism of literature in English.
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- In the Wake of the Event
- Discording After-Rites: Commemorationand Intimate Grief in British and FrenchFiction Published at the Great War’sCentenary
- “It Is, After All, a Communicationwith Ghosts”1: Correspondencesby Anne Michaels and Bernice Eisensteinas a Historical and Personal Elegyin the Aftermath of the Holocaust
- Memory of the Holocaust: VicariousTrauma and Counter-Monumentsin The Hideout by NeTTheatre
- “After You Died I Could Not Holda Funeral, and So My Life Becamea Funeral”: Catastrophic Aftermathsin Han Kang’s Human Acts
- “Phantom Growth”:Post-Traumatic Healingin Ian McEwan’s The Child in Time (1987)and Julian Farino’s TV Adaptation (2017)
- After the Earth:New Postsingularity Scenarios
- The End of the World and After
- Life, End of: Secular Eschatologyin Christine Brooke-Rose’s Outand Anna Kavan’s Ice
- After Naming: Rilke’s Namenlos, Kant,and the Subject of Aesthetics
- The Precursor to Virtual RealityDocuments Architectural Hell:A Stereoscopic Viewof the Crematorium at Dachau
- The Promise of a Hospitable Memory:Encounters on the Threshold
- “We Have Decided Not to Decide”:The End of History and the Punk Politicsof De Reagering
- After Nature: Landscape, Art, and Designin the Aftermath of Katrina and Sandy
- Evental Research…After the Future of Work
- Colonialism and Its Aftermathin The Lord of the Rings: PostcolonialReflections on Tolkien’s Imperial Fantasy
- The Entangled Temporalityof the Postcolony: Zakes Mdaand the “Chaffing Temporalities”of Post-Apartheid
- Life Out of Balance and Its Aftermath.Paradoxes in Arundhati Roy’sThe Ministry of Utmost Happiness:A Material Ecocritical Reading
- Language and Disaster: “The Gulf(Between You and Me)” by Pierre Joris
- The Aftermath of Love:Michael Haneke’s Amour
- Rushdie’s Rebellious Joseph Anton:Chronicling the Aftermathof The Satanic Verses
- The Post-Postmodern Afterlifeof the American Novel: “Resurrecting”the Novel-as-Archive in Anne Valente’sOur Hearts Will Burn Us Down (2016)and Ed Park’s Personal Days (2008)
- Grande Dame Guignoland the Notion of the Aftermath:A Case Study of Robert Aldrich’sHush…Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964)
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