Abstract

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Figures -- 1 Introduction: Intersections of Storytelling and Ethics -- PART I: The Ethical Potential and Limits of Narrative -- 2 Truth, Ethics, Fiction: Responding to Plato's Challenge -- 3 Is There an Ethics to Story-Telling? -- 4 Forms of Ordering: Trauma, Narrative and Ethics -- 5 The Decline of Narrative and the Rise of the Archive -- 6 The Story of the "Anthropos": Writing Humans and Other Primates -- 7 From Appropriation to Dialogic Exploration: A Non-subsumptive Model of Storytelling -- PART II: Narrative Temporalities: Imagining an Other Life -- 8 Alexander Kluge's "Saturday in Utopia": Making Time for Other Lives with German Critical Theory and Heliotropic Narration -- 9 Melancholy and the Narration of Transnational Trauma in W. G. Sebald and Teju Cole -- 10 Memory as Imagination in Elina Hirvonen's When I Forgot -- 11 Popular Representation of East Germany: Whose History Is It? -- 12 Realities in the Making: The Ethics of Fabulation in Observational Documentary Cinema -- PART III: Narrative Engagements with Violence and Trauma -- 13 The Empathetic Listener and the Ethics of Storytelling -- 14 Transformative Tales: Theater Storytelling, Ethics and Restitution -- 15 Towards an Intercultural Aesthetics: Shaping the Memory of Political Violence and Historical Trauma in Eija-Liisa Ahtila's Artwork Where is Where? -- 16 Reading Terror: Imagining Violent Acts through the Rational or Narrative Sublime -- 17 War and Storytelling After 9/11: A Photojournalist's Perspective -- PART IV: Concluding Reeflctions -- 18 Narrative in Dark Times -- List of Contributors -- Index.