Ethical Magic : Traumatic Magic Realism in Toni Morrison's 'Beloved'

Huber, Irmtraud

Ethical Magic : Traumatic Magic Realism in Toni Morrison's 'Beloved'

Dateien

Huber_2-i3w6z0a16xs33.pdfGröße: 140.92 KBDownloads: 67

Datum

2010

Open Access-Veröffentlichung

Open Access Green

Sammlungen

Literatur-, Kunst- und Medienwissenschaften

Publikationstyp

Zeitschriftenartikel

Publikationsstatus

Published

Erschienen in

Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik. De Gruyter. 2010, 58(4), pp. 367-379. ISSN 0044-2305. eISSN 2196-4726. Available under: doi: 10.1515/zaa.2010.58.4.367

Zusammenfassung

Focussing on Toni Morrison’s Beloved this article sets out to show the possibilities magic realism offers to negotiate the difficulties of representation in narratives of trauma. In spite of the common demand for mimetic accuracy, magic realism’s potential for ethical representation lies precisely in its denial of a single coherent reading. By impelling the reader to accept the narrative’s irreducible contradictions, magic realism offers means to express the excess that marks traumatic experience. The bodily presence of the past in Beloved can therefore be read as a literal manifestation of trauma that demands a confrontation of the contradictory needs to forget and to remember. By exploiting analogies between trauma and magic, Beloved points to the ethical necessity of acknowledging the Other as Other and attempts to narrate the Other without defining and fixing it through narration itself.

Fachgebiet (DDC)

800 Literatur, Rhetorik, Literaturwissenschaft

Zitieren

ISO 690

HUBER, Irmtraud, 2010. Ethical Magic : Traumatic Magic Realism in Toni Morrison's 'Beloved'. In: Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik. De Gruyter. 2010, 58(4), pp. 367-379. ISSN 0044-2305. eISSN 2196-4726. Available under: doi: 10.1515/zaa.2010.58.4.367

BibTex

@article{Huber2010Ethic-66313,
  year={2010},
  doi={10.1515/zaa.2010.58.4.367},
  title={Ethical Magic : Traumatic Magic Realism in Toni Morrison's 'Beloved'},
  number={4},
  volume={58},
  issn={0044-2305},
  journal={Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik},
  pages={367--379},
  author={Huber, Irmtraud}
}

RDF

<rdf:RDF
    xmlns:dcterms="http://purl.org/dc/terms/"
    xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
    xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#"
    xmlns:bibo="http://purl.org/ontology/bibo/"
    xmlns:dspace="http://digital-repositories.org/ontologies/dspace/0.1.0#"
    xmlns:foaf="http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/"
    xmlns:void="http://rdfs.org/ns/void#"
    xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#" > 
  <rdf:Description rdf:about="https://kops.uni-konstanz.de/server/rdf/resource/123456789/66313">
    <foaf:homepage rdf:resource="http://localhost:8080/"/>
    <dcterms:title>Ethical Magic : Traumatic Magic Realism in Toni Morrison's 'Beloved'</dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:abstract>Focussing on Toni Morrison’s Beloved this article sets out to show the possibilities magic realism offers to negotiate the difficulties of representation in narratives of trauma. In spite of the common demand for mimetic accuracy, magic realism’s potential for ethical representation lies precisely in its denial of a single coherent reading. By impelling the reader to accept the narrative’s irreducible contradictions, magic realism offers means to express the excess that marks traumatic experience. The bodily presence of the past in Beloved can therefore be read as a literal manifestation of trauma that demands a confrontation of the contradictory needs to forget and to remember. By exploiting analogies between trauma and magic, Beloved points to the ethical necessity of acknowledging the Other as Other and attempts to narrate the Other without defining and fixing it through narration itself.</dcterms:abstract>
    <dcterms:available rdf:datatype="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime">2023-03-07T08:25:04Z</dcterms:available>
    <dc:date rdf:datatype="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime">2023-03-07T08:25:04Z</dc:date>
    <dcterms:hasPart rdf:resource="https://kops.uni-konstanz.de/bitstream/123456789/66313/1/Huber_2-i3w6z0a16xs33.pdf"/>
    <bibo:uri rdf:resource="https://kops.uni-konstanz.de/handle/123456789/66313"/>
    <dc:language>eng</dc:language>
    <dspace:hasBitstream rdf:resource="https://kops.uni-konstanz.de/bitstream/123456789/66313/1/Huber_2-i3w6z0a16xs33.pdf"/>
    <dspace:isPartOfCollection rdf:resource="https://kops.uni-konstanz.de/server/rdf/resource/123456789/38"/>
    <dc:creator>Huber, Irmtraud</dc:creator>
    <void:sparqlEndpoint rdf:resource="http://localhost/fuseki/dspace/sparql"/>
    <dc:contributor>Huber, Irmtraud</dc:contributor>
    <dcterms:issued>2010</dcterms:issued>
    <dcterms:isPartOf rdf:resource="https://kops.uni-konstanz.de/server/rdf/resource/123456789/38"/>
  </rdf:Description>
</rdf:RDF>

Universitätsbibliographie

Nein

Begutachtet

Ja