The Power of Silence

This book discusses silence as a state born either by trauma-inflicted muteness or deliberate abstinence from speech focusing on the mute(d) characters, the nonverbal forms of communication and textual ellipses in Jerzy Kosinski's «The Painted Bird» and Ken Kesey's «One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest».

Inhalt

Silence and speech/trauma/disability Silence as a symptom of the «Différend» and the language of «Homo Sacer» The silence of the victim and the speech of the victimizer in Kosinski's «The Painted Bird» Speech, sound and silence in Kesey's «One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest» Textual ellipses