The edges of trauma : explorations in visual art and literature / edited by Tamás Bényei and Alexandra Stara ; contributors, Catherine Barrette [and twelve others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bényei, Tamás, editor.

Stara, Alexandra, 1967- editor.

Barrette, Catherine, contributor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psychic trauma in literature.

Psychic trauma in art.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (234 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne, [England] : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A collection of essays by an international group of scholars, The Edges of Trauma: Explorations in Visual Art and Literature addresses the vast cultural and discursive construction that trauma has become in recent decades. Unravelling aspects of representing, narrating, testifying to trauma and of sharing or conveying traumatic non-experience, many of the essays offer new perspectives on traditionally central topics of trauma studies, including shellshock, sexual abuse, the Holocaust, AIDS an...

Contents:

TABLE OF CONTENTS; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; INTRODUCTION; "BROKENWARRIORS, TORTURED SOULS"; AN EXPLOSION THAT LED TO PARADISE; TRAUMA AND "ORDINARY WORDS"; THE PSYCHOPATHOLOGY OF COLONIAL LIFE; LYING FOR COMPANY; TRAUMA OBSCURA REVEALED; THE BODY AND COMMUNITYIN FELIX GONZALEZ-TORRES' CANDY SPILLSOR TOWARDS A POSITIVE METAPHOROF ILLNESS; CAUGHT IN THE GRIP OF AN INHERITED PAST; "THE PROBLEM IS, I'M NOT SURE I BELIEVEIN THE THUNDERCLAP OF TRAUMA"; TRAUMA; TRACES OF TRAUMA; THE TRAUMA OF SUBURBIA; 9/11, TELEVISION COMEDY,AND THE IDEOLOGY OF "NATIONAL TRAUMA"; CONTRIBUTORS; INDEX

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed August 7, 2014).

ISBN:

1-4438-6322-X

OCLC:

882778454