Complicity and the Politics of Representation
Published on 22. October 2021
Book
Paperback/Softback
282 pages
978-1-5381-5828-9 (ISBN)
Description
This book explores the concept of complicity with regard to the politics of representation. Over the past decades,complicity critique has evolved and become integral to literary and cultural studies. Nonetheless, the concept of complicityremains fundamentally underresearched. Addressing topical and exigent concerns such as white supremacy, war and displacement, child abuse and mentalism, this timely volume explores how producers, texts, consumers and critics can either intentionally or unwittingly become complicit in the creation and perpetuation of social harm - and how the structures supporting such complicities can be resisted. The contributors aim to raise awareness and lay the groundwork for a utopian 'radical unfolding' that enables not just non-complicity, i.e. the refusal to be complicit, but anti-complicity - the active and collective resistance to social harm.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
7 b/w illustrations;
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
465 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-5381-5828-9 (9781538158289)
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Cornelia Waechter | Robert Wirth
Complicity and the Politics of Representation
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03/2019
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Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
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Persons
Cornelia Waechter is Assistant Professor of British Cultural Studies at the Ruhr University Bochum, Germany. She is the author of Place-ing the Prison Officer: The 'Warder' in the British Literary and Cultural Imagination (Brill, 2015) and co-edited Middlebrow and Gender, 1890-1945 (Brill, 2016) with Christoph Ehland.
Robert Wirth is a Research Assistant in the Department of English and American Studies at the University of Paderborn, Germany, lecturing in English Language and British Cultural and Literary Studies.
Robert Wirth is a Research Assistant in the Department of English and American Studies at the University of Paderborn, Germany, lecturing in English Language and British Cultural and Literary Studies.
Content
1. Introduction: Complicity and the Politics of Representation
Cornelia Waechter
2. The Chapters
Cornelia Waechter and Robert Wirth
PART I: NARRATIVE COMPLICITIES AND COLLECTIVE REMEMBERING
3. Complicit Configurations: Narrating the Partition of India in Auden, Madhvani and Brenton
Christoph Singer
4. Complicity on the Small Screen: Ordinary Germans as Perpetrators in Recent German TV Miniseries on World War II and the Holocaust
Volker Benkert
5. Literary Complicity and the Differend: Naturalizing, Ontologizing, and Self-Referential Representations of National Socialist Persecution
Lorraine Markotic
6. Guilt and Autonomy in Geoffrey Hill's and Hermann Broch's Works
Olaf Berwald
7. An Illusion of Absence: The Picturesque and Culpable Ignorance in Kazuo Ishiguro's The Remains of the Day and The Buried Giant
Ivan Stacy
PART II: ENFOLDINGS AND UNFOLDINGS
8. A Radical Unfolding: Utopianism Against Complicity
John Storey
9. Complicity: Narratives, Articulations and the Politics of Repres
Cornelia Waechter
2. The Chapters
Cornelia Waechter and Robert Wirth
PART I: NARRATIVE COMPLICITIES AND COLLECTIVE REMEMBERING
3. Complicit Configurations: Narrating the Partition of India in Auden, Madhvani and Brenton
Christoph Singer
4. Complicity on the Small Screen: Ordinary Germans as Perpetrators in Recent German TV Miniseries on World War II and the Holocaust
Volker Benkert
5. Literary Complicity and the Differend: Naturalizing, Ontologizing, and Self-Referential Representations of National Socialist Persecution
Lorraine Markotic
6. Guilt and Autonomy in Geoffrey Hill's and Hermann Broch's Works
Olaf Berwald
7. An Illusion of Absence: The Picturesque and Culpable Ignorance in Kazuo Ishiguro's The Remains of the Day and The Buried Giant
Ivan Stacy
PART II: ENFOLDINGS AND UNFOLDINGS
8. A Radical Unfolding: Utopianism Against Complicity
John Storey
9. Complicity: Narratives, Articulations and the Politics of Repres