Interrogating trauma : collective suffering in global arts and media /
There is now a significant body of theory across academic disciplines focused on the representation of cataclysmic European and US historical events. This book examines the concept of trauma by deploying diverse applications of conventional trauma theories.
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
2011.
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Table of Contents:
- Interrogating trauma : towards a critical trauma studies / Antonio Traverso and Mick Broderick
- Caché : or what the past hides / Susannah Radstone
- Torturous dialogues : geographies of trauma and spaces of exception / Suvendrini Perera
- Moving testimonies and the geography of suffering : perils and fantasies of belonging after Katrina / Janet Walker
- After the apology : reframing violence and suffering in First Australians, Australia, and Samson and Delilah / Felicity Collins
- Confronting 'choiceless choices' in Holocaust videotestimonies : judgement, 'privileged' Jews, and the role of the interviewer / Adam Brown
- The guilt zone : trauma, masochism and the ethics of spectatorship in Brian De Palma's Redacted (2007) / Mark Straw
- When places have agency : roadside shrines as traumascapes / Catherine Ann Collins and Alexandra Opie
- Trauma, bodies, and performance art : towards an embodied ethics of seeing / Sophie Anne Oliver
- Poetic witnessing in the archive : the database narrative of Life after wartime / David Carlin
- Bearing witness to the trauma of slavery in Kara Walker's videos : Testimony, eight possible beginnings, and I was transported / Vivien Green Fryd
- Depiction or erasure? Violence and trauma in contemporary Peruvian film / Iliana Pagán-Teitelbaum
- Dictatorship memories : working through trauma in Chilean post-dictatorship documentary / Antonio Traverso.