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Languages of Trauma
History, Memory, and Media
Peter Leese (Edited by), Jason Crouthamel (Edited by), Julia Barbara Köhne (Edited by)
9781487508968
Hardback, published 24 March 2021
424 pages, 43 b&w illustrations, 3 b&w maps
23.5 x 15.9 x 2.8 cm, 0.7 kg
"This collection significantly advances trauma studies, a field destined to continue to grow, expand its intellectual purchase and deepen the extent and complexity of its interdisciplinary reach."
This volume traces the distinct cultural languages in which individual and collective forms of trauma are expressed in diverse variations, including oral and 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.
Introduction: Languages of Trauma Part One: Words and Images 1. "A perfect hell of a night which we can never forget": Narratives of Trauma in the Private Writings of British and Irish Nurses in the First World War 2. Religious Language in German Soldiers’ Narratives of Traumatic Violence, 1914–1918 3. Languages of the Wound: Finnish Soldiers’ Bodies as Sites of Shock during World War II 4. Efim Segal Shell-shocked Sergeant: Red Army Veterans and the Expression and Representation of Trauma Memories 5. The Falling Man: Resisting and Resistant Visual Media in Art Spiegelman’s In the Shadow of No Towers Part Two: Music, Theatre, and Visual Arts 6. Performing Songs and Staging Theatre Performances: Working through the Trauma of the 1965 Indonesian Mass Killings 7. Encounters with Some Things Are Difficult to Say, Re-Membered 8. Performing Memory in an Interdependent Body 9. Memory and Trauma: Two Contemporary Art Projects Part Three: Normalizations of Trauma 10. Between Social Criticism and Epistemological Critique: Critical Theory and the Normalization of Trauma 11. The New Normal: Trauma as Successfully Failed Communication in Nurse Betty 12. The Exploitation of Trauma: (Mis-)Representations of Rape Victims in the War Film Part Four: Representations in Film 13. Translating Individual and Collective Trauma through Horror: The Case of George A. Romero’s Martin 14. Aesthetic Displays of Perpetrators in Joshua Oppenheimer’s The Act of Killing: Post-Atrocity Perpetrator Symptoms, Re-enactments of Violence, and Perpetrator-Victim-Inversions 15. Perpetrator Trauma and Current American War Cinema Coda: Climate Trauma Reconsidered
Peter Leese, Julia Barbara Köhne, and Jason Crouthamel
Bridget E. Keown
Jason Crouthamel
Ville Kivimäki
Robert Dale
Jennifer Anderson Bliss
Dyah Pitaloka and Hans Pols
Katrina Bugaj
Emily Mendelsohn
Maj Hasager
Ulrich Koch
Thomas Elsaesser
Marzena Sokołowska-Paryż
Adam Lowenstein
Julia Barbara Köhne
Raya Morag
E. Ann Kaplan