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