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Languages of Trauma : History, Memory, and Media /

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...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Anderson Bliss, Jennifer (Contribuidor), Bugaj, Katrina (Contribuidor), Crouthamel, Jason (Contribuidor, Editor ), Dale, Robert (Contribuidor), Elsaesser, Thomas (Contribuidor), Hasager, Maj (Contribuidor), Kaplan, E. Ann (Contribuidor), Keown, Bridget E. (Contribuidor), Kivimäki, Ville (Contribuidor), Koch, Ulrich (Contribuidor), Köhne, Julia Barbara (Contribuidor, Editor ), Leese, Peter (Editor , Contribuidor), Lowenstein, Adam (Contribuidor), Mendelsohn, Emily (Contribuidor), Morag, Raya (Contribuidor), Pitaloka, Dyah (Contribuidor), Pols, Hans (Contribuidor), Sokołowska-Paryż, Marzena (Contribuidor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2021]
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Intro Introduction: Languages of Trauma
  • PART ONE. Words and Images
  • 1 "A Perfect Hell of a Night which We Can Never Forget": Narratives of Trauma in the Private Writings of British and Irish Nurses in the First World War
  • 2 Religious Language in German Soldiers' Narratives of Traumatic Violence, 1914-1918
  • 3 Languages of the Wound: Finnish Soldiers' Bodies as Sites of Shock during the Second World War
  • 4 Efim Segal, Shell-Shocked Sergeant: Red Army Veterans and the Expression and Representation of Trauma Memories
  • 5 The Falling Man: Resisting and Resistant Visual Media in Art Spiegelman's In the Shadow of No Towers (2004)
  • PART TWO. Music, Theatre, and Visual Arts
  • 6 Performing Songs and Staging Theatre Performances: Working through the Trauma of the 1965/66 Indonesian Mass Killings
  • 7 Some Things Are Difficult to Say, Re-membered
  • 8 Performing Memory in an Interdependent Body
  • 9 Memory and Trauma: Two Contemporary Art Projects
  • PART THREE. Normalizations of Trauma
  • 10 Between Social Criticism and Epistemological Critique: Critical Theory and the Normalization of Trauma
  • 11 The New Normal: Trauma as Successfully Failed Communication in Nurse Betty (2000)
  • 12 The Exploitation of Trauma: (Mis-)Representations of Rape Victims in the War Film
  • PART FOUR. Representations in Film
  • 13 Translating Individual and Collective Trauma through Horror: The Case of George A. Romero's Martin (1978)
  • 14 Aesthetic Displays of Perpetrators in The Act of Killing (2012): Post-atrocity Perpetrator Symptoms and Re-enactments of Violence
  • 15 Perpetrator Trauma and Current American War Cinema
  • Coda: Climate Trauma Reconsidered
  • Contributors
  • Index