On trauma and traumatic memory / edited by Bootheina Majoul.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Majoul, Bootheina, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psychic trauma in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (171 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne, England : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017.

Summary:

On Trauma and Traumatic Memory focuses on the role of writing to preserve memories, to excavate traumas and to heal the ever-present scars of the past. The first part of the book focuses on trauma recalled through films, fiction and documentaries. The second chapter is devoted to analysing trauma in fiction, while the third deals with trauma in poetry. The topic of trauma is of interest to scholars across the globe, both students and professors, and is taught in almost all universities. This volume gathers research papers from different universities around the world, including India, Italy, Tunisia and the USA.

Contents:

Intro

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Part I: On Trauma in Film, Fiction and Non-Fiction

'Refugee in my own Country'

Atiq Rahimi's Syngué Sabour

Personal Wounds and Global Traumas in Doris Lessing's The Wind Blows Away Our Words

On Witnessing and Representation

Part II: On Trauma in Novels and Plays

Blood Upon the Rose

'She Comes in the Daytime'

On the Road to Traumatic Oblivion

Trauma in Arthur Miller's The Crucible

Part III: On Trauma in Poetry

The Traumatic Silence of Paul Celan

Wartime Trauma

Editor and Contributor Biographies.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed July 18, 2017).

ISBN:

1-4438-7483-3

OCLC:

992390825