Complicity and the Politics of Representation (eBook)

lt;span>Cornelia Wächter is Assistant Professor of British Cultural Studies at the Ruhr University Bochum, Germany. She is the author of Place-ing the Prison Officer: The ‘Warder’ in the British Literary and Cultural Imagination (Brill, 2015) and co-edited Middlebrow and Gender, 1890-1945 (Brill, 2016) with Christoph Ehland.

Robert Wirth is a Research Assistant in the Department of English and American Studies at the University of Paderborn, Germany, lecturing in English Language and British Cultural and Literary Studies.

1. Introduction: Complicity and the Politics of Representation

Cornelia Wächter

2. The Chapters

Cornelia Wächter and Robert Wirth

PART I: NARRATIVE COMPLICITIES AND COLLECTIVE REMEMBERING

3. Complicit Configurations: Narrating the Partition of India in Auden, Madhvani and Brenton

Christoph Singer

4. Complicity on the Small Screen: Ordinary Germans as Perpetrators in Recent German TV Miniseries on World War II and the Holocaust

Volker Benkert

5. Literary Complicity and the Differend: Naturalizing, Ontologizing, and Self-Referential Representations of National Socialist Persecution

Lorraine Markotic

6. Guilt and Autonomy in Geoffrey Hill’s and Hermann Broch’s Works

Olaf Berwald

7. An Illusion of Absence: The Picturesque and Culpable Ignorance in Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Remains of the Day and The Buried Giant

Ivan Stacy

PART II: ENFOLDINGS AND UNFOLDINGS

8. A Radical Unfolding: Utopianism Against Complicity

John Storey

9. Complicity: Narratives, Articulations and the Politics of Representation

Paul Reynolds

10. A Murmur of Indifference to Authorial Identity in Intellectual Life

Brendan Moran

11. I spy with my little eye something complicity simple: Eighteenth-Century Caricature Tricks

Mihaela Irimia

PART III: NARRATIVE COMPLICITY CRITIQUES

12. The Black Counter-Gaze: Complicity and White Privilege in Claudia Rankine’s Citizen

Alexandra Hartmann

13. Challenging Complicity in the Context of Mentalism: Mental Distress Autobiographies and Performance Art

Elisabeth Punzi and Katrin Röder

14. Representation of Complicity with Child Sexual Abuse in the Movies: Spotlight and Doubt

Eli Teram

15. “...to understand everything that came her way”: Complicity and the Child Protagonist

Elizabeth Gilbert

Works Cited

Index

About the Contributors