Immagini che bruciano. Retoriche ecfrastiche e fototestuali nella rappresentazione del trauma

Burning Images : Ekphrastic Strategies and Phototextual Practices in Literary Representations of Trauma - The essay examines the forms and reasons of the recurring use of photography in literary representations of trauma, both through ekphrastic strategies and phototextual practices. Traumatic pictures carry into a space that exceeds language, alluding to the unrepresentability of trauma and the never-ending process of reworking. The image-text interaction configures an epistemological friction that expresses the Nachträglichkeit of trauma. This split and deferred temporality opens to a postmemorial perspective : the visual power of photographs exposes the frailty of remembrance, but at the same time encourages the empathic activation of an affiliative memory.