SPEAKING ABOUT THE UNSPEAKABLE: TRAUMA AND REPRESENTATION
SPEAKING ABOUT THE UNSPEAKABLE: TRAUMA AND REPRESENTATION
Author(s): Mirela LăpugeanSubject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Editura Universităţii de Vest din Timişoara / Diacritic Timisoara
Keywords: absence; memory; representation; trauma;
Summary/Abstract: The paper deals with the problematic relationship between trauma and representation by making use of such concepts as negative (re)presentation, void, absence and oblique representation. The “un(re)presentable” enters a cycle of perpetual remembrance in which trauma can neither be remembered nor forgotten.
Journal: B.A.S. British and American Studies
- Issue Year: 2015
- Issue No: 21
- Page Range: 85-91
- Page Count: 7
