1.0CUREhttps://cure.uni-saarland.de/en/clara.vater@khk.uni-saarland.dehttps://cure.uni-saarland.de/en/author/clara-vaterkhk-uni-saarland-de/rich600338<blockquote class="wp-embedded-content" data-secret="oZm37jRfmZ"><a href="https://cure.uni-saarland.de/en/research/research-projects/gespenster-der-reparation/">The hauntology of reparation</a></blockquote><iframe sandbox="allow-scripts" security="restricted" src="https://cure.uni-saarland.de/en/research/research-projects/gespenster-der-reparation/embed/#?secret=oZm37jRfmZ" width="600" height="338" title="“The hauntology of reparation” — CURE" data-secret="oZm37jRfmZ" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" class="wp-embedded-content"></iframe><script> /*! This file is auto-generated */ !function(d,l){"use strict";l.querySelector&&d.addEventListener&&"undefined"!=typeof URL&&(d.wp=d.wp||{},d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage||(d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage=function(e){var t=e.data;if((t||t.secret||t.message||t.value)&&!/[^a-zA-Z0-9]/.test(t.secret)){for(var s,r,n,a=l.querySelectorAll('iframe[data-secret="'+t.secret+'"]'),o=l.querySelectorAll('blockquote[data-secret="'+t.secret+'"]'),c=new RegExp("^https?:$","i"),i=0;i<o.length;i++)o[i].style.display="none";for(i=0;i<a.length;i++)s=a[i],e.source===s.contentWindow&&(s.removeAttribute("style"),"height"===t.message?(1e3<(r=parseInt(t.value,10))?r=1e3:~~r<200&&(r=200),s.height=r):"link"===t.message&&(r=new URL(s.getAttribute("src")),n=new URL(t.value),c.test(n.protocol))&&n.host===r.host&&l.activeElement===s&&(d.top.location.href=t.value))}},d.addEventListener("message",d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage,!1),l.addEventListener("DOMContentLoaded",function(){for(var e,t,s=l.querySelectorAll("iframe.wp-embedded-content"),r=0;r<s.length;r++)(t=(e=s[r]).getAttribute("data-secret"))||(t=Math.random().toString(36).substring(2,12),e.src+="#?secret="+t,e.setAttribute("data-secret",t)),e.contentWindow.postMessage({message:"ready",secret:t},"*")},!1)))}(window,document); //# sourceURL=https://cure.uni-saarland.de/wp/wp-includes/js/wp-embed.min.js </script> Many literary works that address historical traumas, such as slavery, the Second World War, or colonisation, evince a supernatural dimension. Possessed characters, haunted places, and ghostly apparitions – motifs typically associated with gothic or fantasticgenres – can be found in the works of authors as varied as Maurice Rostand, Gustav Meyrink, Elie Wiesel, Edouard Glissant, Octavia Butler, W. G. Sebald, Toni Morrison, Wu Ming, Ta-Nehisi Coates, and Antoine Volodine. I argue that these writers use supernatural tropes to approach experiences that cannot be fully grasped or expressed through so-called rational or realistic means. Murder victims returning to life, characters haunted by those they have wronged, and places plagued by ghosts all serve to show that the past is not behind us and that we owe it an unpaid debt. In these works, history materialises to remind the living that what was broken remains far from repaired.https://cure.uni-saarland.de/app/uploads/2024/09/CURE-TEam_Programmleitung_Julien-Jeusette-1-scaled.jpg25602560