The Future Life of Trauma : Partitions, Borders, Repetition / Jennifer Yusin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Yusin, Jennifer, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Civilization--History--20th century.

Civilization.

Postcolonialism.

Social psychology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (217 pages)

Edition:

First Edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2017]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

The Future Life of Trauma elaborates a transformation in the concepts of trauma and event by situating a groundbreaking encounter between psychoanalytic and postcolonial discourse. Proceeding from the formation of psychical life as presented in the Freudian metapsychology, it thinks anew the relation between temporality and traumatized subjectivity, demonstrating how the psychic event, as a traumatic event, is a material reality that alters the character of the structure of repetition. By examining the role of borders in the history of the 1947 partition of British India and the politics of memorialization in postgenocide Rwanda, The Future Life of Trauma brings to light the implications of trauma as a material event in contemporary nation-formation, sovereignty, and geopolitical violence. In showing how the form of the psyche changes in the encounter, it presents a challenge to the category of difference in the condition of identity, resulting in the formation of a concept of life that elaborates a new relation to destruction and finitude by asserting its power to transform itself.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Prologue: The Place of a Thousand Hills

Introduction: The Interface of Trauma

1. The Problem of Trauma

2. The Eventality of Trauma

3. Whither Partition?

4. Rwanda Transforming

After Word

Acknowledgments

Notes

Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jul 2020)

ISBN:

0-8232-7549-3

0-8232-7713-5

0-8232-7548-5

OCLC:

988757973