Breaking Intergenerational Cycles of Repetition : A Global Dialogue on Historical Trauma and Memory

Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela

• Publisher: Verlag Barbara Budrich
• Year: 2016
• Topic: Psychology
• eBook ISBN:
  9783847406136
• Subtopic: Social Psychology
• Index: Psychology

The authors in this volume explore the interconnected issues of intergenerational trauma and traumatic memory in societies with a history of collective violence across the globe. Each chapter's discussion offers a critical reflection on historical trauma and its repercussions, and how memory can be used as a basis for dialogue and transformation. The perspectives include, among others: the healing journey of three generations of a family of Holocaust survivors and their dialogue with third generation German students over time; traumatic memories of the British concentration camps in South Africa; reparations and reconciliation in the context of the historical trauma of Aboriginal Australians; and the use of the arts as a strategy of dialogue and transformation.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Breaking Intergenerational Cycles of Repetition. A Global Dialogue on Historical Trauma and Memory
• Contents
• Dedication
• Acknowledgements
• Foreword Reconciliation without Magic: Preface Honouring Nelson Mandela
• Introduction. Breaking Intergenerational Cycles of Repetition
• Chapter 1: Disrupting the Intergenerational Transmission of Trauma: Recovering Humanity, Repairing Generations
• Chapter 2: Rethinking Remorse: The Problem of the Banality of Full Disclosure in Testimonies from South Africa
• Chapter 3: Towards the Poetic Justice of Reparative Citizenship
• Chapter 4: “Moving Beyond Violence:” What We Learn from Two Former Combatants about the Transition from Aggression to Recognition
• Chapter 5. Unsettling Empathy: Intercultural Dialogue in the Aftermath of Historical and Cultural Trauma
• Chapter 6: Interrupting Cycles of Repetition: Creating Spaces for Dialogue, Facing and Mourning the Past
• Chapter 7: Memoryscapes, Spatial Legacies of Conflict, and the Culture of Historical Reconciliation in ‘Post-Conflict’ Belfast
• Chapter 8: The Anglo-Boer War (1899 – 1902) and Its Traumatic Consequences
• Chapter 9: Breaking the Cycles of Repetition? The Cambodian Genocide across Generations in Anlong Veng
• Chapter 10: Reflections on Post-Apology Australia: From a Poetics of Reparation to a Poetics of Survival
• Chapter 11: Ending the Haunting, Halting Whisperings of the Unspoken: Confronting the Haitian Past in the Literary Works of Agnant, Danticat, and Trouillot
• Chapter 12: Intergenerational Jewish Trauma in the Contemporary South African Novel
• Chapter 13: Handing Down the Holocaust in Germany: A Reflectionon the Dialogue between Second Generation Descendants of Perpetrators and Survivors
• Chapter 14: Confronting the Past, Engaging the Other in the Present: The Intergenerational Healing Journey of a Holocaust Survivor and his Children
• Chapter 15: Breaking Cycles of Trauma and Violence: Psychosocial Approaches to Healing and Reconciliation in Burundi
• Chapter 16: Breaking Cycles of Trauma through Diversified Pathways to Healing: Western and Indigenous Approaches with Survivors of Torture and War
• Chapter 17: Acting Together to Disrupt Cycles of Violence: Performance and Social Healing
• Epilogue: “They Did Not See the Bodies”: Confronting and Embracing in the Post-Apartheid University
• Author Biographies
• Index