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The Fear of Violence and the Violence of Fear: Breaking out of the Silence Zones

The paper shall deal with the narrative shaping of the response to the affective atmosphere, as performed by those who have been designated as the objects of hate, and with particular emphasis placed on silence and the absent verbalisation of partial or complete accounts of wartime and post- war experiences. The current affective status of the narrator who uses silence as a strategy of survival and resistance will also be examined. In the paper, I intend to firstly consider silence and concealment at the microlevel of narrative accounts, which includes summarisation, synecdochic accounts and narrative minimalism. After that, I shall also examine the absence of verbalisation in the context of inhibitors affecting the narration of fear and trauma. I will study silence and the reduced communication of fear and trauma using the example of private and non-narrative everyday practices ; at the macrolevel, I shall consider the fear and anxiety of silenced and restrained scientific writing and action as the consequence of the collective imaginary of fear, as well as of the collective conspiracies of silence and the affective atmosphere which seeps into academic work from everyday life, while simultaneously being shaped within the same academic field.

silence, fear, anxiety

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