Languages of Trauma : : History, Memory, and Media / / ed. by Julia Barbara Köhne, Jason Crouthamel, Peter Leese.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2021 English
• MitwirkendeR: Anderson Bliss, Jennifer,; Bugaj, Katrina,; Crouthamel, Jason,; Dale, Robert,; Elsaesser, Thomas,; Hasager, Maj,; Kaplan, E. Ann,; Keown, Bridget E.,; Kivimäki, Ville,; Koch, Ulrich,; Köhne, Julia Barbara,; Leese, Peter,; Lowenstein, Adam,; Mendelsohn, Emily,; Morag, Raya,; Pitaloka, Dyah,; Pols, Hans,; Sokołowska-Paryż, Marzena,
• HerausgeberIn: Crouthamel, Jason,; Köhne, Julia Barbara,; Leese, Peter ,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (424 p.) :; 43 b&w illustrations, 3 b&w maps

This volume traces the distinct cultural languages in which individual and collective forms of trauma are expressed in diverse variations, including oral and written narratives, literature, comic strips, photography, theatre, and cinematic images. The central argument is that traumatic memories are frequently beyond the sphere of medical, legal, or state intervention. To address these different, often intertwined modes of language, the contributors provide a variety of disciplinary approaches to foster innovative debates and provoke new insights. Prevailing definitions of trauma can best be understood according to the cultural and historical conditions within which they exist. Languages of Trauma explores what this means in practice by scrutinizing varied historical moments from the First World War onwards and particular cultural contexts from across Europe, the United States, Asia, and Africa – striving to help decolonize the traditional Western-centred history of trauma, dissolving it into multifaceted transnational histories of trauma cultures.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Intro Introduction: Languages of Trauma -- PART ONE. Words and Images -- 1 “A Perfect Hell of a Night which We Can Never Forget”: Narratives of Trauma in the Private Writings of British and Irish Nurses in the First World War -- 2 Religious Language in German Soldiers’ Narratives of Traumatic Violence, 1914–1918 -- 3 Languages of the Wound: Finnish Soldiers’ Bodies as Sites of Shock during the Second World War -- 4 Efim Segal, Shell-Shocked Sergeant: Red Army Veterans and the Expression and Representation of Trauma Memories -- 5 The Falling Man: Resisting and Resistant Visual Media in Art Spiegelman’s In the Shadow of No Towers (2004) -- PART TWO. Music, Theatre, and Visual Arts -- 6 Performing Songs and Staging Theatre Performances: Working through the Trauma of the 1965/66 Indonesian Mass Killings -- 7 Some Things Are Difficult to Say, Re-membered -- 8 Performing Memory in an Interdependent Body -- 9 Memory and Trauma: Two Contemporary Art Projects -- PART THREE. Normalizations of Trauma -- 10 Between Social Criticism and Epistemological Critique: Critical Theory and the Normalization of Trauma -- 11 The New Normal: Trauma as Successfully Failed Communication in Nurse Betty (2000) -- 12 The Exploitation of Trauma: (Mis-)Representations of Rape Victims in the War Film -- PART FOUR. Representations in Film -- 13 Translating Individual and Collective Trauma through Horror: The Case of George A. Romero’s Martin (1978) -- 14 Aesthetic Displays of Perpetrators in The Act of Killing (2012): Post-atrocity Perpetrator Symptoms and Re-enactments of Violence -- 15 Perpetrator Trauma and Current American War Cinema -- Coda: Climate Trauma Reconsidered -- Contributors -- Index