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2021 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel
10. Temporal and Physical Liminalities of Trauma in Murakami’s After the Quake and DeLillo’s Point Omega
verfasst von : Megan E. Cannella
Erschienen in: Time, the City, and the Literary Imagination
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Abstract
Murakami’s (2002) short story collection after the quake and DeLillo’s (2011) novel Point Omega examine the aftermath of horrific events as lived by characters who do not experience them firsthand. Using the lack of a definitive post-trauma moment to destabilize and expand traditional trauma narratives, both narratives begin to lay the foundation for twenty-first-century loss and recovery narratives. Murakami and DeLillo illustrate that twenty-first-century trauma narratives cannot effectively rely on previous cultural conventions of grief and trauma, which require a defined moment so they can readily employ definitive resolutions. The lack of closure discussed in this chapter is not, then, an expression of a postmodern aesthetic, but of an effort to faithfully represent life in a historical moment in which existence is post-traumatic.