Languages of trauma : history, memory, and media / edited by Peter Leese, Julia Barbara Köhne, and Jason Crouthamel.

"This volume traces the distinct cultural languages in which individual and collective forms of trauma are expressed in diverse variations, including oral or written narratives, literature, comic strips, photography, theatre, and cinematic images. The central argument is that traumatic memories...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Other Authors: Leese, Peter (Editor), Köhne, Julia (Editor), Crouthamel, Jason (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, 2021.
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Summary:"This volume traces the distinct cultural languages in which individual and collective forms of trauma are expressed in diverse variations, including oral or 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."--
Item Description:Includes index.
Physical Description:1 online resource.
ISBN:9781487539405
148753941X
1487539401
9781487539412
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Description based upon online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed March 8, 2021)