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Trauma and Its Representations

Author : Deborah Jenson
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 0801876176
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Trauma and Its Representations written by Deborah Jenson and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2003-05-01 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mimesis has been addressed frequently in terms of literary or visual representation, in which the work of art mirrors, or fails to mirror, life. Most often, mimesis has been critiqued as a simple attempt to bridge the distance between reality and its representations. In Trauma and Its Representations: The Social Life of Mimesis in Post-Revolutionary France, Deborah Jenson argues instead that mimesis not only denotes the representation of reality but is also a crucial concept for understanding the production of social meaning within specific historical contexts. Examining the idea of mimesis in the French Revolution and post-Revolutionary Romanticism, Jenson builds on recent work in trauma studies to develop her own notion of traumatic mimesis. Through innovative readings of museum catalogs, the writings of Benjamin Constant, the novels of George Sand and Gustave Flaubert, and other works, Jenson demonstrates how mimesis functions as a form of symbolic wounding in French Romanticism.

Engaging Violence

Author : Ivana Maček
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134621671
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (346 download)

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Download or read book Engaging Violence written by Ivana Maček and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-03-26 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume opens up new ground in the field of social representations research by focusing on contexts involving mass violence, rather than on relatively stable societies. Representations of violence are not only symbolic, but in the first place affective and bodily, especially when it comes to traumatic experiences. Exploring the responses of researchers, educators, students and practitioners to long-term engagement with this emotionally demanding material, the book considers how empathic knowledge can make working in this field more bearable and deepen our understanding of the Holocaust, genocide, war, and mass political violence. Bringing together international contributors from a range of disciplines including anthropology, clinical psychology, history, history of ideas, religious studies, social psychology, and sociology, the book explores how scholars, students, and professionals engaged with violence deal with the inevitable emotional stresses and vicarious trauma they experience. Each chapter draws on personal histories, and many suggest new theoretical and methodological concepts to investigate emotional reactions to this material. The insights gained through these reflections can function protectively, enabling those who work in this field to handle adverse situations more effectively, and can yield valuable knowledge about violence itself, allowing researchers, teachers, and professionals to better understand their materials and collocutors. Engaging Violence: Trauma, memory, and representation will be of key value to students, scholars, psychologists, humanitarian aid workers, UN personnel, policy makers, social workers, and others who are engaged, directly or indirectly, with mass political violence, war, or genocide.

Emotional Trauma in Greece and Rome

Author : Andromache Karanika
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780815373476
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (734 download)

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Download or read book Emotional Trauma in Greece and Rome written by Andromache Karanika and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines emotional trauma in the ancient world from Greece and Rome to Judaea with a chronological range from about 8th c. BCE to 1st c. CE.

Shocking Representation

Author : Adam Lowenstein
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231132468
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (311 download)

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Download or read book Shocking Representation written by Adam Lowenstein and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2005-12-22 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this imaginative new work, Adam Lowenstein explores the ways in which a group of groundbreaking horror films engaged the haunting social conflicts left in the wake of World War II, Hiroshima, and the Vietnam War. Lowenstein centers Shocking Representation around readings of films by Georges Franju, Michael Powell, Shindo Kaneto, Wes Craven, and David Cronenberg. He shows that through allegorical representations these directors' films confronted and challenged comforting historical narratives and notions of national identity intended to soothe public anxieties in the aftermath of national traumas. Borrowing elements from art cinema and the horror genre, these directors disrupted the boundaries between high and low cinema. Lowenstein contrasts their works, often dismissed by contemporary critics, with the films of acclaimed "New Wave" directors in France, England, Japan, and the United States. He argues that these "New Wave" films, which were embraced as both art and national cinema, often upheld conventional ideas of nation, history, gender, and class questioned by the horror films. By fusing film studies with the emerging field of trauma studies, and drawing on the work of Walter Benjamin, Adam Lowenstein offers a bold reassessment of the modern horror film and the idea of national cinema.

The Unspeakable

Author : Amy L. Hubbell
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443853321
Total Pages : 375 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book The Unspeakable written by Amy L. Hubbell and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2013-10-03 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Unspeakable: Representations of Trauma in Francophone Literature and Art is situated at the crossroads of language, culture and genre; it contends that suffering transcends time, space and cultural specificity. Even when extreme trauma is silenced, it often still emerges in surprising and painful ways. This volume draws together examples from throughout the Francophone world, including countries such as Algeria, Morocco, Lebanon, Rwanda, Cameroon, Congo, Côte d’Ivoire, Haiti, New Caledonia, Quebec and France, and across genres such as autobiography, poetry, theater, film, fiction and visual art to provide a cohesive analysis of the representation of trauma. In addition to the survivors’ expression of trauma, the witnesses and receivers are also taken into account. By gathering studies that explore diverse bodily and psychological traumas through tropes such as repetition, silence and working-through, it tackles ethical responsibility and interrogates how expressive forms evoke a terrible reality through the use of imagination. The aim of this volume is not to question if suffering is representable, but rather to examine to what extent art surpasses its own limitations and goes straight to its essence. The Unspeakable hopes to provide models for the cultural translation of trauma, because, when represented and released from silence and isolation, trauma can give way to the arduous process of healing.

Trauma and Literature

Author : J. Roger Kurtz
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316821277
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (168 download)

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Download or read book Trauma and Literature written by J. Roger Kurtz and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-03-15 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a concept, 'trauma' has attracted a great deal of interest in literary studies. A key term in psychoanalytic approaches to literary study, trauma theory represents a critical approach that enables new modes of reading and of listening. It is a leading concept of our time, applicable to individuals, cultures, and nations. This book traces how trauma theory has come to constitute a discrete but influential approach within literary criticism in recent decades. It offers an overview of the genesis and growth of literary trauma theory, recording the evolution of the concept of trauma in relation to literary studies. In twenty-one essays, covering the origins, development, and applications of trauma in literary studies, Trauma and Literature addresses the relevance and impact this concept has in the field.

A Trauma Artist

Author : Mark A. Heberle
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
ISBN 13 : 0877457611
Total Pages : 375 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (774 download)

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Download or read book A Trauma Artist written by Mark A. Heberle and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2001-04 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on recent conversations with Tim O'Brien, previously published interviews, and new readings of all his works -- including Tomcat in Love -- this book is the first study to concentrate on the role and representation of trauma as the central focus of all O'Brien's works. Book jacket.

Childhood Traumas

Author : Kamayani Kumar
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000699838
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Childhood Traumas written by Kamayani Kumar and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2019-09-11 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contributes to understanding childhoods in the twentieth and twenty-firstcentury by offering an in-depth overview of children and their engagement with the violent world around them. The chapters deal with different historical, spatial, and cultural contexts, yet converge on the question of how children relate to physiological and psychological violence. The twentieth century has been hailed as the "century of the child" but it has also witnessed an unprecedented escalation of cultural trauma experienced by children during the two World Wars, Holocaust, Partition of the Indian subcontinent, and Vietnam War. The essays in this volume focus on victimized childhood during instances of war, ethnic violence, migration under compulsion, rape, and provide insights into how a child negotiates with abstract notions of nation, ethnicity, belonging, identity, and religion. They use an array of literary and cinematic representations—fiction, paintings, films, and popular culture—to explore the long-term effect of violence and neglect on children. As such, they lend voice to children whose experiences of abuse have been multifaceted, ranging from genocide, conflict and xenophobia to sexual abuse, and also consider ways of healing. With contributions from across the world, this comprehensive book will be useful to scholars and researchers of cultural studies, literature, education, education policy, gender studies, child psychology, sociology, political studies, childhood studies, and those studying trauma, conflict, and resilience.

Trauma in Contemporary Literature

Author : Marita Nadal
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134738102
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (347 download)

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Download or read book Trauma in Contemporary Literature written by Marita Nadal and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-03-26 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trauma in Contemporary Literature analyzes contemporary narrative texts in English in the light of trauma theory, including essays by scholars of different countries who approach trauma from a variety of perspectives. The book analyzes and applies the most relevant concepts and themes discussed in trauma theory, such as the relationship between individual and collective trauma, historical trauma, absence vs. loss, the roles of perpetrator and victim, dissociation, nachträglichkeit, transgenerational trauma, the process of acting out and working through, introjection and incorporation, mourning and melancholia, the phantom and the crypt, postmemory and multidirectional memory, shame and the affects, and the power of resilience to overcome trauma. Significantly, the essays not only focus on the phenomenon of trauma and its diverse manifestations but, above all, consider the elements that challenge the aporias of trauma, the traps of stasis and repetition, in order to reach beyond the confines of the traumatic condition and explore the possibilities of survival, healing and recovery.

Languages of Trauma

Author : Peter Leese
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 148753941X
Total Pages : 423 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (875 download)

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Download or read book Languages of Trauma written by Peter Leese and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2021-03-01 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume traces the distinct cultural languages in which individual and collective forms of trauma are expressed in diverse variations, including oral and written narratives, literature, comic strips, photography, theatre, and cinematic images. The central argument is that traumatic memories are frequently beyond the sphere of medical, legal, or state intervention. To address these different, often intertwined modes of language, the contributors provide a variety of disciplinary approaches to foster innovative debates and provoke new insights. Prevailing definitions of trauma can best be understood according to the cultural and historical conditions within which they exist. Languages of Trauma explores what this means in practice by scrutinizing varied historical moments from the First World War onwards and particular cultural contexts from across Europe, the United States, Asia, and Africa – striving to help decolonize the traditional Western-centred history of trauma, dissolving it into multifaceted transnational histories of trauma cultures.

Writing History, Writing Trauma

Author : Dominick LaCapra
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421414007
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)

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Download or read book Writing History, Writing Trauma written by Dominick LaCapra and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2014-09-03 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This updated edition includes a substantive new preface that reconsiders some of the issues raised in the book.

Trauma and Dreams

Author : Deirdre Barrett
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674006904
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (69 download)

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Download or read book Trauma and Dreams written by Deirdre Barrett and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2001-10-30 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finally, this volume concludes with a look at the potential "traumas of normal life," such as divorce, bereavement, and life-threatening illness, and the role of dreams in working through normal grief and loss

Trauma Controversy, The

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Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 1438428332
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Trauma and Media

Author : Allen Meek
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135178666
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (351 download)

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Download or read book Trauma and Media written by Allen Meek and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2011-02-09 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides the first comprehensive account of trauma as a critical concept in the study of modern visual media, from Freud to the present day, looking at how the psychoanalytic theory of trauma was adapted by the cultural critics Walter Benjamin,Theodor Adorno, Roland Barthes, Jacques Derrida, and Slavoj Zizek.

Traumatic Realism

Author : Michael Rothberg
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 9780816634590
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (345 download)

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Download or read book Traumatic Realism written by Michael Rothberg and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on a wide range of texts, Michael Rothberg puts forth an overarching framework for understanding representations of the Holocaust. Through close readings of such writers and thinkers as Theodor Adorno, Maurice Blanchot, Ruth Klüger, Charlotte Delbo, Art Spiegelman, and Philip Roth and an examination of films by Steven Spielberg and Claude Lanzmann, Rothberg demonstrates how the Holocaust as a traumatic event makes three fundamental demands on representation: a demand for documentation, a demand for reflection on the limits of representation, and a demand for engagement with the public.

The Encyclopedia of Psychological Trauma

Author : Gilbert Reyes
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0470447486
Total Pages : 1547 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book The Encyclopedia of Psychological Trauma written by Gilbert Reyes and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-12-03 with total page 1547 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Encyclopedia of Psychological Trauma is the only authoritative reference on the scientific evidence, clinical practice guidelines, and social issues addressed within the field of trauma and posttraumatic stress disorder. Edited by the leading experts in the field, you will turn to this definitive reference work again and again for complete coverage of psychological trauma, PTSD, evidence-based and standard treatments, as well as controversial topics including EMDR, virtual reality therapy, and much more.

Trauma and the Discourse of Climate Change

Author : Lee Zimmerman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000049604
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Trauma and the Discourse of Climate Change written by Lee Zimmerman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-03-24 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The more the global north has learned about the existential threat of climate change, the faster it has emitted greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. In Trauma and the Discourse of Climate Change, Lee Zimmerman thinks about why this is by examining how "climate change" has been discursively constructed, tracing how the ways we talk and write about climate change have worked to normalize a generalized, bipartisan denialism more profound than that of the overt "denialists." Suggesting that we understand that normalized denial as a form of cultural trauma, the book explores how the dominant ways of figuring knowledge about global warming disarticulate that knowledge from the trauma those figurations both represent and reproduce, and by which they remain inhabited and haunted. Its early chapters consider that process in representations of climate change across a range of disciplines and throughout the public sphere, including Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth, Barack Obama’s speeches and climate plans, and the 2015 Paris Agreement. Later chapters focus on how literary representations especially, for the most part, participate in such disarticulations, and on how, in grappling with the representational difficulties at the climate crisis’s heart, some works of fiction—among them Cormac McCarthy’s The Road and Russell Hoban’s Riddley Walker—work against that normalized rhetorical violence. The book closes with a meditation centered on the dream of the burning child Freud sketches in The Interpretation of Dreams. Highlighting the existential stakes of the ways we think and write about the climate, Trauma and the Discourse of Climate Change aims to offer an unfamiliar place from which to engage the astonishing quiescence of our ecocidal present. This book will be essential reading for academics and students of psychoanalysis, environmental humanities, trauma studies, literature, and environmental studies, as well as activists and others drawn to thinking about the climate crisis.