Futurity: Contemporary Literature and the Quest for the Past

by Amir Eshel

When looking at how trauma is represented in literature and the arts, we tend to focus on the weight of the past. In this book, Amir Eshel suggests that this retrospective gaze has trapped us in a search for reason in the madness of the twentieth century's catastrophes at the expense of literature's prospective vision. Considering several key literary works, Eshel argues in Futurity that by grappling with watershed events of modernity, these works...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226924955
• ISBN13: 9780226924953
• Release Date: January 2013
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.1"