Naslov
Touched by Disaster: Writing and the Political

Autori
Božić Blanuša, Zrinka

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Poglavlja u knjigama, ostalo

Knjiga
Myth and Its Discontents: Memory and Trauma in Central and East European Literature

Urednik/ci
Lugarić, Danijela ; Car, Milka ; Molnár, Gábor Tamás

Izdavač
Praesens Verlag

Grad
Beč

Godina
2017

Raspon stranica
249-262

ISBN
978-3-7069-0944-0

Ključne riječi
disaster, writing, the political, Blanchot,

Sažetak
In her book The Culture of Disaster, Marie- Hélène Huet approaches disaster not as a fundamental rupture but as the premise of modern thought. She argues that the state of emergency that characterizes current Western culture has its origins in the anxiety about catastrophic events. Designating destruction, despair and chaos resulting from distant power of cosmic agencies, the word disaster is directly related to disorders of uncommon magnitude. According to James Berger apocalypse and trauma are congruent ideas, but there is a temporal difference: apocalypse is preceded by signs and portents, while trauma produces symptoms after the event. In both cases it is a shattering experience, fundamentally unreadable, ungraspable, unthinkable, overwhelming limit event – a disaster. Maurice Blanchot's The Writing of the Diaster is a book about living in a world without a star to guide us and without redemption. In his view, disaster is a break with the star, break with every form of totality, utter collapse of every possibility of experience. As such, it is the limit of writing. The question is, how are we to write, engage, and critically come to terms with the problematic of disaster? How is disaster seen and unseen, remembered and unrrememebered? What kind of violence lies behind it? What does it mean to be touched by disaster? The purpose of this paper is to examine the concept of disaster in relation to present debates about trauma and apocalypse and thereby address the problem of politics of writing (of the disaster).

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Filologija

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