Wounded : : studies in literary and cinematic trauma / / edited by Gail Finney.

We live in an era of traumatic discourse. The wound (trauma is the Greek word for "wound") speaks multiple languages. Often the trauma registered is political-the trauma of war in Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq, and other nations and the concomitant European migrant crisis. Literature and films...

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Place / Publishing House:Basel, Switzerland : : MDPI,, [2018]
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Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource (viii, 136 pages) :; illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • One Voice Too Many: Echoes of Irony and Trauma in Oedipus the King / Joshua Waggoner
  • Children and Trauma: Unexpected Resistance and Justice in Film and Drawings / Cheri M. Robinson
  • Let Seizing Truths Lie: Witnessing "Factions" in Lauren Slater's Lying / Eden Wales Freedman
  • World-Hating: Apocalypse and Trauma in We Need to Talk about Kevin / Sean Desilets
  • Triangulating Trauma: Constellations of Memory, Representation, and Distortion in Elie Wiesel, Wolfgang Borchert, and W.G. Sebald / William Mahan
  • Trauma, Postmemory, and Empathy: The Migrant Crisis and the German Past in Jenny Erpenbeck's Gehen, ging, gegangen [Go, Went, Gone] / Brangwen Stone
  • Post-Dictatorship Documentary in Chile: Conversations with Three Second-Generation Film Directors / Antonio Traverso
  • What Lies in the Gutter of a Traumatic Past: Infancia clandestina [Clandestine Childhood], Animated Comics, and the Representation of Violence / Mar'ıa Ghiggia
  • Between Grief and Grievance: Memories of Jews in France and the Klaus Barbie Trial / Michael G. Levine
  • In Transit: Sebald, Trauma, and Cinema / Allen Meek
  • Transferential Memory Spaces in Gisela Heidenreich's Das endlose Jahr / Amila Becirbegovic.