Curricular and architectural encounters with W.G. Sebald unsettling complacency, reconstructing subjectivity / edited by Teresa Strong-Wilson, Ricardo L. Castro, Warren Crichlow, and Amarou Yoder.
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | New York, NY : Routledge, 2023 |
| Description | pages cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Taylor & Francis eBooks |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from eBooks on EBSCOhost |
| Subjects |
| Other author/creator | Strong-Wilson, Teresa, 1961- |
| Other author/creator | Castro, Ricardo L. |
| Other author/creator | Crichlow, Warren. |
| Other author/creator | Yoder, Amarou. |
| Series | Studies in curriculum theory |
| Contents | Unsettling complacency / Teresa Strong-Wilson, Ricardo L. Castro, Warren Crichlow & Amarou Yoder -- Reconstructing subjectivity / Teresa Strong-Wilson, Ricardo L. Castro, Warren Crichlow & Amarou Yoder -- Sebald's natural histories : towards ethical responsibility in writing and teaching about trauma / Amarou Yoder -- Following Sebald's unsettling course : syndetic pilgrimage in architectural education and practice / Ricardo L. Castro with Teresa Strong-Wilson -- A terrible pleasure : reading Sebald's Austerlitz / Maleea Acker -- Being taught by Sebald's narrator in The rings of Saturn : transcendental violence and the work of mourning / Clarence W. Joldersma -- Colonizing lands and cultures : the London of Jemmy Button / Gonzalo Muñoz-Vera -- Architecture and archive : postmemory mediation in W.G. Sebald's Austerlitz / Karen A. Krasny -- Unsettling belonging : reflections on auto/biographical structures of ethical self-encounters / Teresa Strong-Wilson -- W.G. Sebald and Orientalism : constructing and unsettling the European gaze toward Muslims / Farouk Mitha -- At last becoming your shell : encountering unsettling figures of animals and nature in Sebald / Robert C. Nellis -- Reading the trace, threshold, waste and failure : figures of dreaming in Sebald's Austerlitz / David Lewkowich -- Unsettling time and place : Sebald in Outport Newfoundland / Robert Mellin -- Writing the unwritable : Sebald, Haraway, and creative disobedience / Rachel Horst -- Unsettling place at the threshold of being : the architectures of the self in Austerlitz / Carlos Rueda, Carlos Niño Murcia, and Germán Ramírez -- After hope : empire, ecocide & Sebald's steller's Bildung / Claudia Eppert. |
| Abstract | "This book engages with the writings of W.G. Sebald, mediated by perspectives drawn from curriculum and architecture, to explore the theme of unsettling complacency and confront difficult knowledge around trauma, discrimination and destruction. Moving beyond overly instrumentalist and reductive approaches, the authors combine disciplines in a scholarly fashion to encourage readers to stretch their understandings of currere. The chapters exemplify important, timely and complicated conversations centred on ethical response and responsibility, in order to imagine a more just and aesthetically experienced world. In the analysis of bildung as human formation, the book illuminates the pertinent lessons to be learned from the works of Sebald and provokes further investigations into the questions of memory, grief, and limits of language. Through its juxtaposition of curriculum and architecture, and using the prose of Sebald as a prism, the book revitalizes questions about education and ethics, probes the unsettling of complacency, and enables conversation around difficult knowledge and ethical responsibility, as well as offering hope and resolve. An important intervention in standard approaches to understanding currere, this book provides essential context for scholars and educators with interests in the history of education, curriculum studies, cultural studies, memory studies, narrative research, Sebaldian studies, and educational philosophy"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2022031788 |
| ISBN | 9781032299655 (hardback) |
| ISBN | 9781032299730 (paperback) |
| ISBN | (ebook) |
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| Electronic Resources | ✔ Available |