Testimony and Trauma : Engaging Common Ground / Christina Santos, Adriana Spahr, Tracy Crowe Morey.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Morey, Tracy Crowe, editor.

Santos, Christina, editor.

Spahr, Adriana, editor.

Series:

At the Interface / Probing the Boundaries 118.

At the Interface / Probing the Boundaries; v. 118

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Witnesses.

Psychic trauma.

Culture--Study and teaching--Interviews.

Culture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 326 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Leiden, Boston : Brill | Rodopi, 2019.

Summary:

This book offers a collection of reflective essays on current testimonial production by researchers and practitioners working in multifaceted fields such as art and film performance, public memorialization, scriptotherapy, and fictional and non-fictional testimony. The inter-disciplinary approach to the question of testimony offers a current account of testimony’s diversity in the twenty-first century as well as its relevance within the fields of art, storytelling, trauma, and activism. The range of topics engage with questions of genre and modes of representation, ethical and political concerns of testimony, and the flaws and limitations of testimonial production giving testament to some of the ethical concerns of our present age. Contributors are Alison Atkinson-Phillips, Olga Bezhanova, Melissa Burchard, Mateusz Chaberski, Candace Couse, Tracy Crowe Morey, Marwa Sayed Hanafy, Rachel Joy, Emma Kelly, Timothy Long, Elizabeth Matheson, Antonio Prado del Santo, Christine Ramsay, Cristina Santos and Adriana Spahr.

Contents:

Front Matter

Copyright

Notes on Contributors

Introduction: Testimony and Trauma: Engaging Common Ground / Tracy Crowe Morey , Cristina Santos and Adriana Spahr

Testimony, Time (In)Memorial

Material Testimony: Memorials Bearing Witness to Experiences of Loss and Trauma / Alison Atkinson-Phillips

Spanish Republicans in the Holocaust: Historical Rights and Testimonial Literature / Antonio Prado del Santo

Writing Spain’s Fraught History: Testimony or Fiction? / Olga Bezhanova

Suffer the Children

When the Personal Becomes Collective: a Mother’s Re-Membering of a Disappeared Daughter in Madre de Mendoza / Cristina Santos

Growing Up in Pain: Children of the Victims of the Argentinean Dictatorship / Adriana Spahr

Non-Standard Witness: Lessons from Working with/for Traumatized Children / Melissa Burchard

Scripts and Performances of Testimony

Trauma and Healing in Izzeldin Abuelaish’s I Shall Not Hate / Marwa Sayed Hanafy

The ‘Piercing Breach of a Border’: Irish Cinema as a Mediator of Modern Trauma / Emma Kelly

Performing Witnesses: Frameworks of Memory in Contemporary Performing Arts / Mateusz Chaberski

Testimonial Embodiments

Sick: Negotiating Body Trauma through Visual Art Practice / Candace Couse

Very Becoming: Transforming Our Settler Selves in Occupied Australia / Rachel Joy

The Curatorial Turn: Objects, Space, and Frames of Testimony

Haunted Geographies in Atom Egoyan’s Calendar and Return to the Flock / Christine Ramsay

Atom Egoyan’s Auroras: a Chorus of Witnesses / Timothy Long

Immersive Space and the Place of the Witness / Elizabeth Matheson.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004391130 DOI