Perpetrators Legacies: Post-imperial Condition in Sebald and McEwan [Hardcover]

Introduction

Co-implicated literatures: Towards a revised understanding of world literature

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Section One

Entangled legacies

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1. The long shadow of perpetrators: An undesired implication

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2. Purification and enclosure: Post-imperial condition in Germany and Great Britain

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Section Two

W.? G. Sebald: Purifying the implicated self

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3. Purifying the implicated self: Sebald, Wittgenstein, Montaigne, and care of the self

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4. Getting out of history: Levitation and paralysis in Sebald and Nabokov

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5. Postmemory in action: (Re)creating the nodes of memory in The Rings of Saturn and Austerlitz

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Section Three

Ian McEwan: Longing for enclosure

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6. Yearning for the plot: Enclosure in Black Dogs

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7. Deprived of protection: The complicitous authorship in Atonement

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8. Mutual reassertion: Community drive and individual exemption in The Children Act

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References

Index

The book presents Winfried Georg Sebald and Ian McEwan as paradigmatic post-imperial writers who, enmeshel34