Speaking the Unspeakable: Engaging Nefas in Lucan and Rwanda 1994

Lucan’s Bellum Civile can be read as an epic that functions in the mode of trauma literature, i.e. a work that explicitly seeks to represent a horror that defies its very representation. Toward this end, this article applies the lens of modern trauma studies to a comparative reading of Lucan set al...

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Main Author: Mark Allen Thorne
Format: Article
Language:deu
Published: Universität Potsdam 2017-04-01
Series:thersites. Journal for Transcultural Presences & Diachronic Identities from Antiquity to Date
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Online Access:https://www.thersites-journal.de/index.php/thr/article/view/41