Emerging Vectors of Narratology: Toward Consolidation or Diversification? (A Response)

This is a response to the questions asked by Franco Passalacqua and Federico Pianzola as a follow-up of the 2013 ENN conference. The discussions that originated at the conference  were rich and thought-provoking and so the editors of this special section of «Enthymema» decided to continue the dialogue about the state of the art and the future of narratology

Besværgelser

Stefan Iversen: Besværgelse

Vidnesbyrdets vidner: Receptionsangst og etik i mødet med det interviewede vidne

Witnessing the Witness: Anxiety of Reception and the Survivor Interview:In this article I highlight and discuss the ethical challenges raised in and by the reception of witness interviews, focusing on audiovisual and written interviews with survivors from what is commonly referred to as Holocaust. The article falls into three parts. In the first part I outline the basic features of witness interviews, arguing that such interviews may be described according to the different answers they provide to questions regarding authenticity, performativity and interactivity. Drawing upon recent theoretical approaches from the study of testimony and witness narratives, the second part of the article presents and discusses different ways of positioning oneself as the receiver of such cultural artifacts, suggesting the term ‘anxiety of reception’ to describe a common difficulty shared by these approaches, a difficulty not easily, if at all, avoidable. The final part of the article extends this discussion by turning towards some of the experiences gained during the making of a recent Danish publication of witness interviews – Vidnesbyrd: Danske fortællinger fra tyske koncentrationslejre (2008) [Testimonies: Danish Stories from German Concentration Camps], collected and edited by Henrik Skov Nielsen, Stefan Kjerkegaard and myself

Ni ud af ti narratologer bruger fortæller

Lars-Åke Skalin (red.): Ordet och köttet. Om teorin kring litteräre karaktärer, Örebro 2003 (Universitetsbiblioteket).Lars-Åke Skalin (red.): Berätteren. En gäckande röst i texten, Örebro 2003 (Universitetsbiblioteket)

Velkomne introduktioner

Henrik Jøker Bjerre og Carsten Bagge Laustsen: Slavoj Žižek og Lisanne Wilken: Pierre Bourdieu, Begge: Frederiksberg 2006 (Roskilde Universitetsforlag)

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Om igen

Annemette Hejlsted: Fortællingen i teori og analyse, Frederiksberg 2007 (Forlaget Samfundslitteratur)

Det umisteliges dialektik

Efter disse mere principielle og overordnede teoretiske betragtninger reflektererStefan Iversen over den danske holocaustlitteraturs fravær i dansk litteraturhistorieskrivning og læser i “Det umisteliges dialektik” Iboja Wandall-Holms autobiografiske beretning Farvel til århundredet fra 2000. Ud over at undersøge relationen mellem bogens uhyrlige hændelsesforløb og dens form samt dens grundlæggende tema, det umistelige forstået som betingelsen for overlevelse, og dens særegne dialektiske metode påpeger Iversen to forhold, som giver bogen en særstatus inden for holocaustlitteraturen: For det første, at den sammenstiller nazismen og den tjekkoslovakiske statskommunisme, og for det andet, at den er skrevet af en kvinde, at der altså er tale om et kønnet vidnesbyrd, og at dette gør en signifikant forskel