Beschreibung:
Katharina Gerstenberger, Tanja Nusser
Essays examining representations of disaster in German and international contexts, exploring the nexus between disruption and recovery through narrative from the eighteenth century to the present.
IntroductionTableaux of Terror: The Staging of the Lisbon Earthquake of 1755 as Cathartic SpectacleThe French Burn Paris, 1871Memory Politics: The Bombing of Hamburg and DresdenObserving the Observation of Nuclear Disasters in Alexander KlugeRereading Christa Wolf's Störfall following the 2011 Fukushima CatastropheNarrating the Untellable: Yoko Tawada and Haruki Murakami as Transnational Translators of CatastropheBeautiful Destructions: The Filmic Aesthetics of Spectacular CatastrophesConstellations of Primal Fear in Josef Haslingers Phi Phi IslandAvalanche Catastrophes and Disaster Traditions: Anthropological Perspectives on Coping Strategies in Galtür, TyrolDefining CatastrophesBibliographyNotes on the ContributorsIndex