Gerrit-Jan Berendse/Mark Williams (Hgg.) Terror and Text   Representing Political Violence in Literature and the Visual Arts 2002, ISBN 3-89528-351-7, 325 Seiten, kart. EUR 24,80 [vergriffen] E-Book: EUR 12,20 bei Paper'C
Throughout human history, and especially in the modern period, one finds a bloody trail of political violence, the product of individual fanaticism, ideological conviction or cold-blooded institutional power. How can poets, photographers, painters, filmmakers, academics and intellectuals respond to the challenge presented to art and reflective thought by violent acts? This volume includes multiple perspectives on the troubled and troubling relationship between aesthetics and violence. The interdisciplinary essays provide insights into the configurations of terror and art – from various historical periods and genres, from Japan, Ireland, South Africa, Russia, France, Germany, the USA and from New Zealand. In addition, the still unassimilated impact on consciousness and artistic discourse of the attacks of 11 September 2001 are scrutinised. Contents: Gerrit-Jan Berendse and Mark Williams: Introduction Part I. The Ethics of Representation James Meffan: Terror, Writing and Responsibility Stuart Murray: “A Limb Remembering the Body”: Slavery, Mutilation and Healing in the Caribbean Writing of Wilson Harris, V.S. Naipaul and Derek Walcott Mark Williams: The Touch of Man: Strange Happenings in the Ureweras Part II. Writing Terror Robin Bond: “Fearful Friendships”: Terror in the Historiography, Drama and Satire of First Century CE Rome Jane Stafford: Domestic Terror: Seamus Deane’s Reading in the Dark Rod Fisher: Pilloried by the State: An East German Writer’s Answer to Intimidation in the Sixties Chigusa Kimura-Steven: Terror in the Art and Lives of Mishima Yukio and Ôe Kenzaburô Thorsten Harms: “Lurid and Dreadful Dimensions”: Don DeLillo’s Underworld and the Terror of the Bomb Part III. Violated Bodies Gerrit-Jan Berendse: The Art of Terror: Textualisations of the Baader-Meinhof “Super-Body” Anna Smith: “Off with their Heads”: Decapitation and the Experience of Limits Henrietta Mondry: Terror of Anomalous Sexualities: Rozanov on Gogol’ and the Jews William Rollins: “Bilderverbot” for Historians? Photography vs. Narrative in Hitler’s Willing Executioners Alan Wright: Torture in the Name of Cinema: Bazin, Rossellini, Godard Postscript. Writing 11 September 2001 Dinah Hawken: Diary Notes: The Softening of Steel Bibliography Gerrit-Jan Berendse (1959) studied in Göttingen, Frankfurt/Main, Germany and Utrecht, Netherlands. Since 1994 he has taught contemporary German Literature in the Department of German at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand. Latest publications include Krawarnewall. Über Adolf Endler (Leipzig: Reclam 1997) and Grenz-Fallstudien. Essays zum Topos Prenz1auer Berg in der DDR-Literatur (Berlin: Erich Schmidt Verlag 1999). Mark Williams (1951) studied in Auckland, New Zealand and Vancouver, Canada. He is a specialist in modern English, especially New Zealand literature and teaches in the Department of English at the University of Canterbury. He is author of the monograph Patrick White (New York: St. Martins Press 1993) and co-editor of An Anthology of New Zealand Poetry in English (Auckland: Oxford University Press 1997).