Trauma Texts

Trauma Texts
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 331
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ISBN-10 : 9781317990260
ISBN-13 : 1317990269
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Book Synopsis Trauma Texts by : Gillian Whitlock

Download or read book Trauma Texts written by Gillian Whitlock and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-05-11 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These chapters gathered from two special issues of the journal Life Writing take up a major theme of recent work in the Humanities: Trauma. Autobiography has had a major role to play in this ‘age of trauma’, and these essays turn to diverse contexts that have received little attention to date: partition narratives in India, Cambodian and Iranian rap, refugee letters from Nauru, graffiti in Tanzania, and the silent spaces of trauma in Chile and Guantanamo. The contexts and media of these autobiographical trauma texts are diverse, yet they are linked by attention to questions of who gets to speak/write/inscribe autobiographically and how and where and why, and how can silences in the wake of traumatic experiences be read. These essays deliberately set out to establish some new fields for research in trauma studies by reaching out to a broader global context, into various texts, media and artifacts, representing diverse histories with specific attention to different voices, bodies, memories and subjectivities. This collection addresses the contemporary circuits of trauma story, and the media and icons and narratives that carry trauma story to political effect and emotional affect. This book was previously published as two special issues of Life Writing.


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