Breaking Intergenerational Cycles of Repetition : : A Global Dialogue on Historical Trauma and Memory / / Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela, Donna Orange

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 ca...

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Year of Publication:2016
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource (384 p.)
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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 fromAggression to Recognition Transition from Aggression to RecogChapter 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 VengChapter 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 ChildrenChapter 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 UniversityAuthor Biographies; Index