Complicity and the Politics of Representation

Cornelia Wächter is Assistant Professor of British Cultural Studies at the Ruhr University Bochum, Germany. She is the author of Place-ing the Prison Officer: The ‘Warder’ in the British Literary and Cultural Imagination (Brill, 2015) and co-edited Middlebrow and Gender, 1890-1945 (Brill, 2016) with Christoph Ehland.Robert Wirth is a Research Assistant in the Department of English and American Studies at the University of Paderborn, Germany, lecturing in English Language and British Cultural and Literary Studies.

• 1. Introduction: Complicity and the Politics of RepresentationCornelia Wächter2. The ChaptersCornelia Wächter and Robert WirthPART I: NARRATIVE COMPLICITIES AND COLLECTIVE REMEMBERING3. Complicit Configurations: Narrating the Partition of India in Auden, Madhvani and Brenton Christoph Singer4. Complicity on the Small Screen: Ordinary Germans as Perpetrators in Recent German TV Miniseries on World War II and the HolocaustVolker Benkert5. Literary Complicity and the Differend: Naturalizing, Ontologizing, and Self-Referential Representations of National Socialist PersecutionLorraine Markotic6. Guilt and Autonomy in Geoffrey Hill’s and Hermann Broch’s Works Olaf Berwald7. An Illusion of Absence: The Picturesque and Culpable Ignorance in Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Remains of the Day and The Buried GiantIvan StacyPART II: ENFOLDINGS AND UNFOLDINGS8. A Radical Unfolding: Utopianism Against ComplicityJohn Storey9. Complicity: Narratives, Articulations and the Politics of Repres