Interpreting Violence : Narrative, Ethics and Hermeneutics (Paperback)

List of contributors

Interpreting Violence, Violent Interpretations: Introduction

Cassandra Falke, Victoria Fareld and Hanna Meretoja

1. Witnessing Violence in Literature and Humanitarian Discourse

Cassandra Falke (UiT - The Arctic University of Norway)

2. Memory, Encore! Popular Music, Power and Postwar Memory

Avril Tynan (Turku Institute for Advanced Studies)

3. Rethinking Planetarity in the Specter of (Neo)colonial Violence: The Strangler Vine and ‘Thugs’ in America

Amrita Ghosh (Linneaus University)

4. Variants and Consequences of Violence in Iris Murdoch’s The Sacred and Profane Love Machine

Jakob Lothe (University of Oslo)

5. Violent Appetites: Distaste and the Aesthetics of Violence

Tero Eljas Vanhanen (University of Helsinki)

Part II. Understanding the Violence of Perpetrators

6. A Manifesto on the Hermeneutics of Violence

Brian Schiff and Michael Justice (American University of Paris)

7. Narrative Mastery over Violence in Perpetrator-Authored Documents: Interpreting Closure in The Stroop Report

Erin McGlothlin (Washington University)

8. Space of Murder, Space of Freedom: The Forest as a Posttraumatic Landscape in Holocaust Narratives

Helena Duffy (Turku Institute for Advanced Studies)

Part III. Articulating Inherent Violence

9. Physical, Emotional and Discursive Violence: The Problem of Narrative in Karl Ove Knausgard’s My Struggle

Hanna Meretoja (University of Turku)

10. Reading Violence, Violent Reading: Levinas and Hermeneutics

Colin Davis (Royal Holloway, University of London)

11. Style and the Violence of Passivity in Samuel Beckett’s How It Is.

Amanda Dennis (American University of Paris)

12. Vulnerability, Violence and Nonviolence

           Victoria Fareld (Stockholm University)

Index