Troubled Waters: Liquid Memory in the Wake of Disaster

Ravalico, Lauren Danielle

doi:10.1353/com.2017.0004

The Comparatist

2017

DOI: 10.1353/com.2017.0004

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Troubled Waters: Liquid Memory in the Wake of Disaster

Lauren Danielle Ravalico¹

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“…The generic conventions of particular art forms can falsify the physical, psychic and/or affective experience of disaster. Ravalico (2017) cites Marie-Hélène Huet's argument that because 'disaster is fundamentally a "negation of order", it "cannot be rendered as a narrative without losing its own specificity"' (Ravalico 2017, 64;citing Huet 2012, 19). Carrigan explores catastrophe's 'genealogical association with plot conclusions in drama' , yet finds that while the tragic mode is essential to much post-disaster art, it is rarely the dominant one.…”

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Introduction: Refiguring Disaster Temporalities

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The introduction to this special section notes the wide range of disciplines and interdisciplinary fields that have begun to address questions of disaster, including questions of time, or temporality, that emerge in relation to definitions, understandings, and experiences of disaster. Following a discussion of selected scholarly works that focus on the role of arts, creative activities, or more generally aesthetic considerations in relation to disaster experiences, including ethical as well as formal or technical challenges facing the representation of disaster, the three essays that make up this special section are introduced. The three essays explore questions of temporality that emerge in the context and aftermath of ‘environmental’ disaster — Australian bushfires, the Canterbury earthquakes of 2010–11, and reef ruins of eastern Sulawesi. More specifically, they address the ways that aesthetic responses to, or treatment of, disaster in creative arts both reveal and refigure disaster temporalities in affective terms, often with ethical implications. Keywords: disaster, environment, temporality, art, affect

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Looking Away: On Théodore Géricault’s The Raft of the Medusa and the Narration of Political Pedagogy in The Aesthetics of Resistance

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2022

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Starting from Hannah Arendt’s reflections on the openness of the future and the function of promises for political action, this essay offers a new understanding of the political pedagogy at work in The Aesthetics of Resistance. Rather than being narrated by the author’s proxy, as much of the novel’s reception assumes, Weiss plays subversively with mask narration. The narrator’s selective reading of Théodore Géricault’s The Raft of the Medusa guides readers to a complex assessment of the costs and deformations necessitated by the narrator’s promise to remain part of the antifascist resistance. Via its poetics of looking away, the novel discloses a probing of history, politics, and collective action that contrasts sharply with the narrator’s stated poetics and teleological expectations. The Aesthetics of Resistance prepares its future readings as an open, not-yet-determined pursuit of aesthetic and political education.

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Troubled Waters: Liquid Memory in the Wake of Disaster

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Introduction: Refiguring Disaster Temporalities

Introduction: Refiguring Disaster Temporalities

Looking Away: On Théodore Géricault’s The Raft of the Medusa and the Narration of Political Pedagogy in The Aesthetics of Resistance

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