Complicity and the Politics of Representation

Häftad, Engelska, 2021

AvCornelia Wächter,Robert Wirth,Cornelia Wachter

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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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Utgivningsdatum2021-10-22
Mått153 x 230 x 20 mm
Vikt508 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor282
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9781538158289

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Cornelia Wächter 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.

1. Introduction: Complicity and the Politics of RepresentationCornelia Wächter2. The ChaptersCornelia Wächter and Robert WirthPART I: NARRATIVE COMPLICITIES AND COLLECTIVE REMEMBERING3. Complicit Configurations: Narrating the Partition of India in Auden, Madhvani and Brenton Christoph Singer4. Complicity on the Small Screen: Ordinary Germans as Perpetrators in Recent German TV Miniseries on World War II and the HolocaustVolker Benkert5. Literary Complicity and the Differend: Naturalizing, Ontologizing, and Self-Referential Representations of National Socialist PersecutionLorraine Markotic6. Guilt and Autonomy in Geoffrey Hill’s and Hermann Broch’s Works Olaf Berwald7. An Illusion of Absence: The Picturesque and Culpable Ignorance in Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Remains of the Day and The Buried GiantIvan StacyPART II: ENFOLDINGS AND UNFOLDINGS8. A Radical Unfolding: Utopianism Against ComplicityJohn Storey9. Complicity: Narratives, Articulations and the Politics of Repres