Wounded Scholar, Healing Witness
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Wounded Scholar, Healing Witness

The Value of Life Writing in Coping with Traumas

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Wounded Scholar, Healing Witness

The Value of Life Writing in Coping with Traumas

About this book

This edited book focuses on the role of scholars in studying their own individual traumas, exploring the complex interplay between personal trauma and scholarly engagement. It gathers a diverse range of contributions, including an essay, seven articles, and an insightful interview. The authors discuss the emotional, ethical, and intellectual challenges they faced in the research and representation of their traumas. They examine how personal and collective wounds shape individual identities, community narratives, and broader societal dynamics in Europe, Asia, Australia, and the Americas from the 1930s to the present. The causes of trauma are multifaceted and include the current war in the Middle East, school shootings in the USA, the AIDS crisis in South Africa, genocides such as the Holodomor and the Holocaust, nuclear warfare during the Second World War, and childhood abuse. Following the diverse methodologies employed in trauma studies, this volume reflects multidisciplinary backgrounds and will be beneficial for students, scholars, and researchers of literature, film studies, history, psychology, musicology, and visual art.

The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Life Writing.

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Yes, you can access Wounded Scholar, Healing Witness by Idit Gil,Stefanie Hofer in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Languages & Linguistics & Mental Health & Wellbeing. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Series Page
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright Page
  6. Table of Contents
  7. Citation Information
  8. Notes on Contributors
  9. Introduction: Wounded Scholar, Healing Witness
  10. 1 ā€˜I Hope You and Your Loved Ones Remain Safeā€™: Dispatch from a Teacher-Scholar-Life Writer in Wartime
  11. 2 Kinship in Darkness: On the Humanitiesā€™ Intrinsic Potential to Foster Post-Traumatic Healing
  12. 3 On the Memory of Birds: A Meditation on Memory and Mourning AIDS Deaths in South Africa
  13. 4 Inventing Reality: An Integration of Autobiographical Fiction with Jungian Psychoanalysis to Negotiate a Personal Experience of Trauma
  14. 5 Between the Personal and the History: Writing a Biography in the First Person
  15. 6 Trauma and Healing through Postgenerational Holodomor Survivor Research
  16. 7 Torn Bodies: Inner Conflicts of Surviving Composers
  17. 8 Scriptotherapy: WW2 Shanghai Female Refugeesā€™ Memoirs
  18. 9 On Witnessing, the Responsibility of Transmitting, and the Healing Powers of Creativity. An Interview with the Jewish-Argentine Artist Mirta Kupferminc
  19. Index