Critical Trauma Studies : : Understanding Violence, Conflict and Memory in Everyday Life /

Critical Trauma Studies : : Understanding Violence, Conflict and Memory in Everyday Life / / ed. by Monica Casper, Eric Wertheimer, Eric Wertheimer.

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Trauma is a universal human experience. While each person responds differently to trauma, its presence in our lives nonetheless marks a continual thread through human history and prehistory. In Critical Trauma Studies, a diverse group of writers, activists, and scholars of sociology, anthropology, l...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Complete eBook-Package 2016
MitwirkendeR:
Allison, Dorothy,
Banner, Francine,
Beck Matuštík, Martin,
Casper, Monica J.,
Duku Anokye, Akua,
Fahs, Breanne,
Goman, Carmen,
Hankins, Rebecca,
Hodges Hamilton, Amy,
Jackson, Debra,
Kelley, Douglas,
Orr, Jackie,
Schwab, Gabriele M.,
Stevens, Maurice E.,
Talebi, Shahla,
Wertheimer, Eric,
Wicks, Amanda,
HerausgeberIn:
Casper, Monica,
Wertheimer, Eric,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2016]
©2016
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1. Within Trauma: An Introduction
  • I. Politics
  • 2. Trauma Is as Trauma Does: The Politics of Affect in Catastrophic Times
  • 3. “She Was Just a Chechen”: The Female Suicide Bomber as a Site of Collective Suffering in Wartime Chechen Republic
  • 4. Naming Sexual Trauma: On the Political Necessity of Nuance in Rape and Sex Offender Discourses
  • 5. Conceptualizing Forgiveness in the Face of Historical Trauma
  • II. Poetics
  • 6. Bahareh: Singing without Words in an Iranian Prison Camp
  • 7. Voices of Silence: On Speaking from within the Void (A Response to Shahla Talebi)
  • 8. Future’s Past: A Conversation about the Holocaust with Gabriele M. Schwab
  • 9. “No Other Tale to Tell”: Trauma and Acts of Forgetting in The Road
  • 10. Body Animations (or, Lullaby for Fallujah): A Performance
  • III. Praxis
  • 11. First Responders: A Pedagogy for Writing and Reading Trauma
  • 12. Answering the Call: Crisis Intervention and Rape Survivor Advocacy as Witnessing Trauma
  • 13. Documenting Disaster: Hurricane Katrina and One Family’s Saga
  • 14. A Cure for Bitterness
  • Bibliography
  • About the Contributors
  • Index

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