Futurity: Contemporary Literature and the Quest for the Past,Used

Futurity: Contemporary Literature and the Quest for the Past,Used

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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 centurys catastrophes at the expense of literatures prospective vision. Considering several key literary works, Eshel argues in Futurity that by grappling with watershed events of modernity, these works display a futurecentric engagement with the past that opens up the present to new political, cultural, and ethical possibilitieswhat he calls futurity.Bringing together postwar German, Israeli, and AngloAmerican literature, Eshel traces a shared trajectory of futurity in world literature. He begins by examining German works of fiction and the debates they spurred over the future character of Germanys public sphere. Turning to literary works by JewishIsraeli writers as they revisit Israels political birth, he shows how these stories inspired a powerful reconsideration of Israels identity. Eshel then discusses post1989 literaturefrom Ian McEwans Black Dogs to J. M. Coetzees Diary of a Bad Yearrevealing how these books turn to events like World War II and the Iraq War not simply to make sense of the past but to contemplate the political and intellectual horizon that emerged after 1989. Bringing to light how reflections on the past create tools for the future, Futurity reminds us of the numerous possibilities literature holds for grappling with the challenges of both today and tomorrow.

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