Traumatic Possessions
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Author |
: Jennifer L. Griffiths |
Publisher |
: University of Virginia Press |
Total Pages |
: 145 |
Release |
: 2010-01-12 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780813928951 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0813928958 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (51 Downloads) |
Synopsis Traumatic Possessions by : Jennifer L. Griffiths
Studies of traumatic stress have explored the challenges to memory as a result of extreme experience, particularly in relation to the ways in which trauma resonates within the survivor’s body and the difficulties survivors face when trying to incorporate their experience into meaningful narratives. Jennifer Griffiths examines the attempts of several African American writers and playwrights to explore ruptures in memory after a traumatic experience and to develop creative strategies for understanding the inscription of trauma on the body in a racialized cultural context. In the literary and performance texts examined here, Griffiths shows how the self is reconstituted through testimony—through the attempt to put into language and public statement the struggle of survivors to negotiate the limits placed on their bodies and to speak controversial truths. Dessa in her jail cell, Venus in the courtroom, Sally on the auction block, Ursa in her own family history, and Rodney King in the video frame—each character in these texts by Sherley Anne Williams, Suzan-Lori Parks, Robbie McCauley, Gayl Jones, and Anna Deavere Smith gives voice not only to the limits of language in representing traumatic experience but also to the necessity of testimony as the public enactment of memory and bodily witness. In focusing specifically and exclusively on the relation of trauma to race and on the influence of racism on the creation and reception of narrative testimony, this book distinguishes itself from previous studies of the literatures of trauma.
Author |
: Marinella Rodi-Risberg |
Publisher |
: Springer Nature |
Total Pages |
: 230 |
Release |
: 2022-03-24 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9783030966195 |
ISBN-13 |
: 3030966194 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (95 Downloads) |
Synopsis Intersectional Trauma in American Women Writers' Incest Novels from the 1990s by : Marinella Rodi-Risberg
This book explores the intersections of sexualized, gendered, and racialized traumas in five US novels about father-daughter incest from the 1990s. It examines how incest can be connected to wider past and present structural oppression and institutional abuse, and what fiction looks like that testifies against and references a historical background of slavery, poverty, settler colonialism, annexation, and immigration. Investigating the means of resistance used against attempts at silencing and denial in these texts, the book also shows how contemporary women’s novels can propose social change. Overall, this study uniquely argues that the individual trauma of incest in these texts must be understood in relation to histories of and present collective wounding against marginalized communities. By sitting at the intersections between trauma theory and US third world feminism, it allows for theory to meet literary activism.
Author |
: Kathleen Nader |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 833 |
Release |
: 2019-10-16 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780429851506 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0429851502 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (06 Downloads) |
Synopsis Handbook of Trauma, Traumatic Loss, and Adversity in Children by : Kathleen Nader
The Handbook of Trauma, Traumatic Loss, and Adversity in Children is a developmentally oriented book rich with findings related to child development, the impact of trauma on development and functioning, and interventions directed at treating reactions to trauma. Aspects of attachment and parenting and the use of interrelationships toward therapeutic ends are included in each age-related section of the book, ranging from 0 to 18+. Consolidating research from a range of disciplines including neurobiology, psychopathology, and trauma studies, chapters offer guidance on the potentially cascading effects of trauma, and outline strategies for assisting parents and teachers as well as children. Readers will also find appendices with further resources for download on the book’s website. Grounded in interdisciplinary research, the Handbook of Trauma, Traumatic Loss, and Adversity in Children is an important resource for mental health researchers and professionals working with children, adolescents, and families during the ongoing process of healing from traumatic exposure.
Author |
: Laurie Vickroy |
Publisher |
: University of Virginia Press |
Total Pages |
: 261 |
Release |
: 2015-10-30 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780813937397 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0813937396 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (97 Downloads) |
Synopsis Reading Trauma Narratives by : Laurie Vickroy
As part of the contemporary reassessment of trauma that goes beyond Freudian psychoanalysis, Laurie Vickroy theorizes trauma in the context of psychological, literary, and cultural criticism. Focusing on novels by Margaret Atwood, William Faulkner, Toni Morrison, Jeanette Winterson, and Chuck Palahniuk, she shows how these writers try to enlarge our understanding of the relationship between individual traumas and the social forces of injustice, oppression, and objectification. Further, she argues, their work provides striking examples of how the devastating effects of trauma—whether sexual, socioeconomic, or racial—on individual personality can be depicted in narrative. Vickroy offers a unique blend of interpretive frameworks. She draws on theories of trauma and narrative to analyze the ways in which her selected texts engage readers both cognitively and ethically—immersing them in, and yet providing perspective on, the flawed thinking and behavior of the traumatized and revealing how the psychology of fear can be a driving force for individuals as well as for society. Through this engagement, these writers enable readers to understand their own roles in systems of power and how they internalize the ideologies of those systems.
Author |
: J. Roger Kurtz |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 416 |
Release |
: 2018-03-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781316821275 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1316821277 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (75 Downloads) |
Synopsis Trauma and Literature by : J. Roger Kurtz
As a concept, 'trauma' has attracted a great deal of interest in literary studies. A key term in psychoanalytic approaches to literary study, trauma theory represents a critical approach that enables new modes of reading and of listening. It is a leading concept of our time, applicable to individuals, cultures, and nations. This book traces how trauma theory has come to constitute a discrete but influential approach within literary criticism in recent decades. It offers an overview of the genesis and growth of literary trauma theory, recording the evolution of the concept of trauma in relation to literary studies. In twenty-one essays, covering the origins, development, and applications of trauma in literary studies, Trauma and Literature addresses the relevance and impact this concept has in the field.
Author |
: Faten Haouioui |
Publisher |
: Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 186 |
Release |
: 2021-05-20 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781527569959 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1527569950 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (59 Downloads) |
Synopsis De Facto Trauma Reconsidered by : Faten Haouioui
This collection of essays revises contemporary trauma theory, from Freudian/Caruthian and post-structuralist perspectives. While Western trauma theory is often theorized according to post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), this volume discusses different forms of trauma that target decolonisation theories in Arab-Maghrebean and Afro-American contexts and Chinese narratives on courtesans. The contributors to this book also scrutinize the artistic representation of trauma in poetry and drama, adopting a cross-cultural approach to trauma theory.
Author |
: Julie Rivkin |
Publisher |
: John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages |
: 1652 |
Release |
: 2017-01-23 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781118718384 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1118718380 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (84 Downloads) |
Synopsis Literary Theory by : Julie Rivkin
The new edition of this bestselling literary theory anthology has been thoroughly updated to include influential texts from innovative new areas, including disability studies, eco-criticism, and ethics. Covers all the major schools and methods that make up the dynamic field of literary theory, from Formalism to Postcolonialism Expanded to include work from Stuart Hall, Sara Ahmed, and Lauren Berlant. Pedagogically enhanced with detailed editorial introductions and a comprehensive glossary of terms
Author |
: Christa Schönfelder |
Publisher |
: transcript Verlag |
Total Pages |
: 347 |
Release |
: 2014-04-30 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9783839423783 |
ISBN-13 |
: 3839423783 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (83 Downloads) |
Synopsis Wounds and Words by : Christa Schönfelder
Trauma has become a hotly contested topic in literary studies. But interest in trauma is not new; its roots extend to the Romantic period, when novelists and the first psychiatrists influenced each others' investigations of the »wounded mind«. This book looks back to these early attempts to understand trauma, reading a selection of Romantic novels in dialogue with Romantic and contemporary psychiatry. It then carries that dialogue forward to postmodern fiction, examining further how empirical approaches can deepen our theorizations of trauma. Within an interdisciplinary framework, this study reveals fresh insights into the poetics, politics, and ethics of trauma fiction.
Author |
: Catherine Smith |
Publisher |
: NUS Press |
Total Pages |
: 196 |
Release |
: 2018 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9789814722605 |
ISBN-13 |
: 981472260X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (05 Downloads) |
Synopsis Resilience and the Localisation of Trauma in Aceh, Indonesia by : Catherine Smith
The globalisation of psychiatry has helped shape the way suffering and recovery is experienced in Aceh, Indonesia, a region with a long history of violent conflict. In this book, Catherine Smith examines the global reach of the contested yet compelling concept of trauma, which has expanded well beyond the bounds of therapeutic practice to become a powerful cultural idiom shaping the ways social actors understand the effects of violence and imagine possible responses to suffering. In Aceh, conflict survivors have incorporated the globalised concept of trauma into local languages, healing practices and political imaginaries. The incorporation of this globalised idiom of distress into the Acehnese medical-moral landscape provides an ethnographic perspective on suffering and recovery, and contributes to contemporary debates about the globalisation of psychiatry and its ongoing expansion outside the domain of medicine.
Author |
: Laura Stokes |
Publisher |
: Jessica Kingsley Publishers |
Total Pages |
: 178 |
Release |
: 2023-03-21 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781839972225 |
ISBN-13 |
: 183997222X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (25 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Teen Trauma Journal by : Laura Stokes
This therapeutic journal provides you with the tools and coping strategies you need to better look after yourself. Covering topics such as attachment, thinking styles, self-esteem and new relationships, it looks at how early relationships and trauma may have impacted you, and supports you in planning for your future. Authored by experienced Consultant Clinical Psychologist Laura Stokes, this journal will be a source of support and guidance you as you navigate life's ups and downs.