Languages of trauma : history, memory, and media
"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."-- Includes bibliographical references and index. xiv, 408 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Leese, Peter,
- NIOD Bibliotheek
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- Psychic trauma in motion pictures.
- Memory in motion pictures.
- Psychic trauma in literature.
- Psychic trauma and mass media.
- War in literature.
- Memory in art.
- Psychic trauma in the theater.
- Psychic trauma in music.
- Memory in literature.
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