Wounded : studies in literary and cinematic trauma / edited by Gail Finney.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Finney, Gail, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psychology in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 136 pages) : illustrations

Other Title:

Wounded

Place of Publication:

Basel, Switzerland : MDPI, [2018]

Summary:

We live in an era of traumatic discourse. The wound (trauma is the Greek word for "wound") speaks multiple languages. Often the trauma registered is political-the trauma of war in Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq, and other nations and the concomitant European migrant crisis. Literature and films about Vietnam, the "Dirty War" in Argentina, 9/11, and, perhaps above all, the Holocaust, abound. We encounter memoirs of survivors, and now memoirs of the children of survivors. Furthermore, the recent series of brutal and unjust actions toward unarmed blacks by white law officers is generating a new discourse of the long-standing trauma of race relations in the United States. Autobiographical and other narratives of family trauma are also flourishing. Memoirs by the dozen seek to come to terms with childhood and youthful experiences scarred by radical alienation between family members, extreme poverty, addictions of all kinds, child and spousal abuse, child molestation and parent-child incest, sibling incest, divorce, suicide, and murder. The eleven articles in this Special Issue employ a variety of interpretive approaches to traumas such as these as depicted in literature and film. The cultures of ancient Greece, Germany, Argentina, the United States, France, and Chile are represented.

Contents:

One Voice Too Many: Echoes of Irony and Trauma in Oedipus the King / Joshua Waggoner

Children and Trauma: Unexpected Resistance and Justice in Film and Drawings / Cheri M. Robinson

Let Seizing Truths Lie: Witnessing "Factions" in Lauren Slater's Lying / Eden Wales Freedman

World-Hating: Apocalypse and Trauma in We Need to Talk about Kevin / Sean Desilets

Triangulating Trauma: Constellations of Memory, Representation, and Distortion in Elie Wiesel, Wolfgang Borchert, and W.G. Sebald / William Mahan

Trauma, Postmemory, and Empathy: The Migrant Crisis and the German Past in Jenny Erpenbeck's Gehen, ging, gegangen [Go, Went, Gone] / Brangwen Stone

Post-Dictatorship Documentary in Chile: Conversations with Three Second-Generation Film Directors / Antonio Traverso

What Lies in the Gutter of a Traumatic Past: Infancia clandestina [Clandestine Childhood], Animated Comics, and the Representation of Violence / Mar'ıa Ghiggia

Between Grief and Grievance: Memories of Jews in France and the Klaus Barbie Trial / Michael G. Levine

In Transit: Sebald, Trauma, and Cinema / Allen Meek

Transferential Memory Spaces in Gisela Heidenreich's Das endlose Jahr / Amila Becirbegovic.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

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ISBN:

9783038429364

3038429368

Publisher Number:

10.3390/books978-3-03842-936-4