{"product_id":"languages-of-trauma-history-memory-and-media-hardback-9781487508968","title":"Languages of Trauma; History, Memory, and Media (Hardback) 9781487508968","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eLanguages of Trauma\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eHistory, Memory, and Media\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003ePeter Leese (Edited by), Jason Crouthamel (Edited by), Julia Barbara Köhne (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781487508968\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 24 March 2021\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e424 pages, 43 b\u0026amp;w illustrations, 3 b\u0026amp;w maps\u003cbr\u003e23.5 x 15.9 x 2.8 cm, 0.7 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"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.\"\u003c\/p\u003e - Joy Porter, University of Hull (\u003cem\u003eSocial History of Medicine\u003c\/em\u003e)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePrevailing definitions of trauma can best be understood according to the cultural and historical conditions within which they exist. \u003ci\u003eLanguages of Trauma\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Languages of Trauma\u003cbr\u003ePeter Leese, Julia Barbara Köhne, and Jason Crouthamel\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePart One: Words and Images\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1. \"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 \u003cbr\u003eBridget E. Keown\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. Religious Language in German Soldiers\u0026amp;#x2019; Narratives of Traumatic Violence, 1914–1918\u003cbr\u003eJason Crouthamel\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. Languages of the Wound: Finnish Soldiers\u0026amp;#x2019; Bodies as Sites of Shock during World War II\u003cbr\u003eVille Kivimäki\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4. \u003cem\u003eEfim Segal Shell-shocked Sergeant\u003c\/em\u003e: Red Army Veterans and the Expression and Representation of Trauma Memories\u003cbr\u003eRobert Dale\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5. The Falling Man: Resisting and Resistant Visual Media in Art Spiegelman\u0026amp;#x2019;s \u003cem\u003eIn the Shadow of No Towers\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJennifer Anderson Bliss\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePart Two: Music, Theatre, and Visual Arts\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6. Performing Songs and Staging Theatre Performances: Working through the Trauma of the 1965 Indonesian Mass Killings\u003cbr\u003eDyah Pitaloka and Hans Pols\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7. Encounters with \u003cem\u003eSome Things Are Difficult to Say\u003c\/em\u003e, Re-Membered\u003cbr\u003eKatrina Bugaj\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8. Performing Memory in an Interdependent Body\u003cbr\u003eEmily Mendelsohn\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9. Memory and Trauma: Two Contemporary Art Projects\u003cbr\u003eMaj Hasager\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePart Three: Normalizations of Trauma\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10. Between Social Criticism and Epistemological Critique: Critical Theory and the Normalization of Trauma\u003cbr\u003eUlrich Koch\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11. The New Normal: Trauma as Successfully Failed Communication in \u003cem\u003eNurse Betty\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThomas Elsaesser\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12. The Exploitation of Trauma: (Mis-)Representations of Rape Victims in the War Film\u003cbr\u003eMarzena Sokołowska-Paryż\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePart Four: Representations in Film\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13. Translating Individual and Collective Trauma through Horror: The Case of George A. Romero\u0026amp;#x2019;s Martin\u003cbr\u003eAdam Lowenstein\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14. Aesthetic Displays of Perpetrators in Joshua Oppenheimer\u0026amp;#x2019;s \u003cem\u003eThe Act of Killing\u003c\/em\u003e: Post-Atrocity Perpetrator Symptoms, Re-enactments of Violence, and Perpetrator-Victim-Inversions \u003cbr\u003eJulia Barbara Köhne\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15. Perpetrator Trauma and Current American War Cinema\u003cbr\u003eRaya Morag\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCoda: Climate Trauma Reconsidered\u003cbr\u003eE. 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