Topography of trauma [e-book] : fissures, disruptions and transfigurations / edited by Danielle Schaub, Jacqueline Linder, Kori D. Novak, Stephanie Tam and Claudio Vescia Zanini.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Schaub, Danielle, editor.

Linder, Jacqueline, editor.

Series:

Rethinking Socialism and Reform in China; volume4.

Rethinking Socialism and Reform in China; volume4

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psychic trauma.

Psychic trauma in art.

Psychic trauma in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (366 pages)

Place of Publication:

Leiden Boston : Brill | Rodopi, 2019.

Summary:

This volume addresses trauma not only from a theoretical, descriptive and therapeutic perspective, but also through the survivor as narrator, meaning maker, and presenter. By conceptualising different outlooks on trauma, exploring transfigurations in writing and art, and engaging trauma through scriptotherapy, dharma art, autoethnography, photovoice and choreography, the interdisciplinary dialogue highlights the need for rethinking and re-examining trauma, as classical treatments geared towards healing do not recognise the potential for transfiguration inherent in the trauma itself. The investigation of the fissures, disruptions and shifts after punctual traumatic events or prolonged exposure to verbal and physical abuse, illness, war, captivity, incarceration, and chemical exposure, amongst others, leads to a new understanding of the transformed self and empowering post-traumatic developments. Contributors are Peter Bray, Francesca Brencio, Mark Callaghan, M. Candace Christensen, Diedra L. Clay, Leanne Dodd, Marie France Forcier, Gen’ichiro Itakura, Jacqueline Linder, Elwin Susan John, Kori D. Novak, Cassie Pedersen, Danielle Schaub, Nicholas Quin Serenati, Aslı Tekinay, Tony M. Vinci and Claudio Zanini.

Contents:

Front Matter

Copyright

Notes on Contributors

Introduction: Mapping the Topography of Trauma / Danielle Schaub

Conceptualising Trauma

The Continuum of Trauma / Francesca Brencio and Kori D. Novak

Encountering Trauma ‘Too Soon’ and ‘Too Late’: Caruth, Laplanche, and the Freudian Nachträglichkeit / Cassie Pedersen

‘A World of Death and Phantoms’: Auschwitz, Androids, and the Ethical Demands of Reading Trauma and the Fantastic in Willing Unbelief / Tony M. Vinci

Through the Looking-Glass: Child Sexual Abuse from the Inside-Out / Jacqueline Linder

Working with Addiction and Trauma: Mental Health Professionals Reflect on Their Use of Spirituality / Peter Bray

Contemplating Trauma

Transformative Shocks: War Trauma in David Rabe’s Sticks and Bones and Sam Shepard’s States of Shock / Aslı Tekinay

‘Pinned limb to limb by a ton of rocks’: Annihilation in the Face of Captivity and Torture in Alan Cumyn’s Man of Bone / Danielle Schaub

Writing Trauma, Writing Modern: Nadeem Aslam’s The Wasted Vigil and Atiq Rahimi’s The Patience Stone / Gen’ichiro Itakura

Body and Trauma in Chuck Palahniuk’s Haunted / Claudio Vescia Zanini

‘I Used To Be Human Once’: Trauma and Reconfigurations of the Body in Chemical Disasters / Elwin Susan John

Painting over the Past: Political Palimpsests in Northern Ireland and the Complexities of the ‘Whitewash’ Initiative / Mark Callaghan

Transcending Genre: Narrative Strategies for Creating Literary Crime Fiction as a Subset of Trauma Literature / Leanne Dodd

Engaging Trauma

Illness Is a Window: Reframing Leukaemia through Dharma Art / Nicholas Quin Serenati

Engaging Trauma Resulting from Sexual Violence through Autoethnography and Photovoice / M. Candace Christensen

Creating and Contextualising Trauma-Related Contemporary Choreography / Marie France Forcier

Eating Disorders: Traumatic Context and Interventions / Diedra L. Clay

Back Matter

Index of Names

Index of Terms.

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

90-04-40794-4

OCLC:

1096244126

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004407947 DOI