Languages of Trauma: History, Memory, and Media

Published by University of Toronto Press 2021

Languages of Trauma

History, Memory, and Media

Edited by: Peter Leese , Jason Crouthamel and Julia Barbara Köhne

https://doi.org/10.3138/9781487539405

Overview
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About this book

Languages of Trauma explores how, and for what purposes, trauma is expressed in historical sources and visual media.

Author / Editor information

Leese Peter :

Peter Leese is an associate professor in the Department of English, Germanic and Romance Studies at the University of Copenhagen.
Crouthamel Jason :

Jason Crouthamel is a professor in the Department of History at Grand Valley State University.
Köhne Julia Barbara :

Julia Barbara Köhne is FONTE visiting professor in the Faculty of Culture, Social Sciences and Education at Humboldt-University Berlin.

Reviews

Joy Porter, University of Hull:

"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."

Elizabeth Roberts-Pedersen, Senior Lecturer in History, University of Newcastle, Australia:

"Languages of Trauma is a valuable addition to the growing field of trauma studies, most notably for its willingness to engage with topics in a contemporary timeframe, to put cultural representation alongside clinical understandings, to consider the perpetrator as well as the victim/survivor, and to go beyond the Anglo-American experience of the world wars."

Aris Mousoutzanis, Principal Lecturer in Film and Screen Studies, University of Brighton:

"Languages of Trauma provides an introduction to a different strand of trauma theory, outlining critiques of earlier generations in the history of the discipline and analysing new avenues and approaches currently trending. With its scope, ambition, and interdisciplinarity, this book provides a major contribution to research."

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Illustrations Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	xiii
Intro Introduction: Languages of Trauma Peter Leese, Julia Barbara Köhne and Jason Crouthamel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
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 Bridget E. Keown Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	29
2 Religious Language in German Soldiers’ Narratives of Traumatic Violence, 1914–1918 Jason Crouthamel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	46
3 Languages of the Wound: Finnish Soldiers’ Bodies as Sites of Shock during the Second World War Ville Kivimäki Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	70
4 Efim Segal, Shell-Shocked Sergeant: Red Army Veterans and the Expression and Representation of Trauma Memories Robert Dale Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	97
5 The Falling Man: Resisting and Resistant Visual Media in Art Spiegelman’s In the Shadow of No Towers (2004) Jennifer Anderson Bliss Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	120
PART TWO. Music, Theatre, and Visual Arts
6 Performing Songs and Staging Theatre Performances: Working through the Trauma of the 1965/66 Indonesian Mass Killings Dyah Pitaloka and Hans Pols Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	141
7 Some Things Are Difficult to Say, Re-membered Katrina Bugaj Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	160
8 Performing Memory in an Interdependent Body Emily Mendelsohn Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	183
9 Memory and Trauma: Two Contemporary Art Projects Maj Hasager Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	197
PART THREE. Normalizations of Trauma
10 Between Social Criticism and Epistemological Critique: Critical Theory and the Normalization of Trauma Ulrich Koch Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	213
11 The New Normal: Trauma as Successfully Failed Communication in Nurse Betty (2000) Thomas Elsaesser Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	239
12 The Exploitation of Trauma: (Mis-)Representations of Rape Victims in the War Film Marzena Sokołowska-Paryż Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	265
PART FOUR. Representations in Film
13 Translating Individual and Collective Trauma through Horror: The Case of George A. Romero’s Martin (1978) Adam Lowenstein Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	293
14 Aesthetic Displays of Perpetrators in The Act of Killing (2012): Post-atrocity Perpetrator Symptoms and Re-enactments of Violence Julia Barbara Köhne Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	310
15 Perpetrator Trauma and Current American War Cinema Raya Morag Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	360
Coda: Climate Trauma Reconsidered E. Ann Kaplan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	384
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	397
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	403

Language: English
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Audience: College/higher education;Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 424
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 43
- Other: 43 b&w illustrations, 3 b&w maps
Keywords: trauma; history; memory; media; psychiatry; psychology; trauma in cinema; shell shock; war and trauma; trauma and medicine; resilience; post-traumatic stress disorder; World War I; medical humanities

eBook

Published: March 1, 2021
ISBN: 9781487539405