Introduction: Life Writing in an Age of Trauma
Gabriele Rippl (University of Bern)/Philipp Schweighauser (University of Basel)/Therese Steffen (University of Basel)
I. Life Writing and Trauma: Theorizing the Vicissitudes of Representing Violence
1. Seeing Ghosts: Theorizing Haunting in Literary Texts - Tiina Kirss (University of Tartu)
2. Trauma and Utopia: Benjamin, Adorno, and Elie Wiesel's Night - Philipp Schweighauser (University of Basel)
II. Auto/biographies as Trauma Narratives
3. Richard Wollheim's Germs: Life Writing as Therapy, Despite Theory - Julia Straub (University of Bern)
4. Writing Childhood, Writing Lack - Maarja Hollo (Estonian Literary Museum)
5. Loquacious Silences: Vikram Seth's Two Lives and the German Language - Nora Anna Escherle (University of Bern)
6. Unsayable or Merely Unsaid? - Eneken Laanes (Estonian Academy of Sciences)
7. Voicing Trauma in the Deportation Narratives of Baltic Women - Leena Kurvet-Käosaar (Tallinn University)
8. Trauma Narratives and National Identity - Annie Cottier (University of Bern)
III. Limit-cases: Exploring the Limits of Telling Pain
9. "Metaphors for the Scots Today": History and National Identity in Scottish Drama after 1945 - Stefanie Preuss (University of Konstanz)
10. Aspects of Post-Imperial Constructions of Nationhood - Eva Rein (University of Tartu)
11. Anecdotalization of Memory in Jaan Kross' Paigallend - Eneken Laanes (Estonian Academy of Sciences)
12. Meddling with Memory--Negating Grand Narratives - Nora Anna Escherle (University of Bern)
13. Fighting Fear with Writing: Christa Wolf`s Kindheitsmuster and Ene Mihkelson's Ahasveeruse uni (The Sleep of Ahasuerus) - Aija Sakova (Tartu University)
14. The Stigma of the Autobiographical - Julia Straub (University of Bern)
15. The Search for the Lost Parent in Joy Kogawa's Obasan and Ene Mihkelson's Ahasveeruse uni (The Sleep of Ahasuerus) - Eva Rein (University of Tartu)
16. Making the Silence Speak: A Critical Discussion of Trauma Transmission and Identity Formation - Stefanie Preuss (University of Konstanz)
IV. Fictions of Loss and Trauma
17. (Re-)Visions of the Buried Self: Childhood Trauma and Self-Narration in Margaret Atwood's Cat's Eye - Christa Schönfelder (University of Zurich)
18. Grasping Patterns of Violence - Aija Sakova (Tartu University)
19. Nostalgia and Redemption in Bernard Kangro's Joonatan-Novels - Maarja Hollo (Estonian Literary Museum)
20. Renegotiations of Longing and Belonging: Exile, Memory and Nostalgia - Christa Schönfelder (University of Zurich)
21. Haunted Whispers from the Footnotes: Life Writing in Raj Kamal Jha's Fireproof - Annie Cottier (University of Bern)
22. What Only Fiction Can Do - Leena Kurvet-Käosaar (Tallinn University)
Afterword: Ethical and Political Aspects of Life Writing and Remembering - Margit Sutrop (University of Tartu)
