Trauma Texts
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Trauma Texts

  1. 208 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
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eBook - ePub

Trauma Texts

About this book

These chapters gathered from two special issues of the journal Life Writing take up a major theme of recent work in the Humanities: Trauma. Autobiography has had a major role to play in this 'age of trauma', and these essays turn to diverse contexts that have received little attention to date: partition narratives in India, Cambodian and Iranian rap, refugee letters from Nauru, graffiti in Tanzania, and the silent spaces of trauma in Chile and Guantanamo. The contexts and media of these autobiographical trauma texts are diverse, yet they are linked by attention to questions of who gets to speak/write/inscribe autobiographically and how and where and why, and how can silences in the wake of traumatic experiences be read. These essays deliberately set out to establish some new fields for research in trauma studies by reaching out to a broader global context, into various texts, media and artifacts, representing diverse histories with specific attention to different voices, bodies, memories and subjectivities. This collection addresses the contemporary circuits of trauma story, and the media and icons and narratives that carry trauma story to political effect and emotional affect.

This book was previously published as two special issues of Life Writing.

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Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2018
Print ISBN
9780415853170
eBook ISBN
9781317990260
Edition
1
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Literary Biographies
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. 1 Introduction: Trauma Texts: Reading Trauma in the Twenty-First Century
  6. 2 A Transnational Hip Hop Nation: praCh, Cambodia, and Memorialising the Killing Fields
  7. 3 Karibu Mwanza: Drawings by Tanzanian Street Children
  8. 4 Testimonio and Telling: Women’s Narratives of Genocide, Torture and Political Imprisonment in Post-Suharto Indonesia
  9. 5 Fifty Years On: Melancholic (Re)collections and Women’s Voices from the Partition of India
  10. 6 I Must Know: Re-membering Native Women in the CAVNET_IW Community
  11. 7 Putting Site Back into Trauma Studies: A Study of Five Detention and Torture Centres in Santiago, Chile
  12. 8 Textual Traumata: Letters to Lindy Chamberlain
  13. 9 Vulnerable Children, Disposable Mothers: Holocaust and Stolen Generations Memoirs of Childhood
  14. 10 Letters from Nauru
  15. 11 Hostile Witness: Torture Testimony in the War on Terror
  16. 12 From Grief to Grievance: Ethics and Politics in the Testimony of Anti-War Mothers
  17. Index