What Happened? Re-Presenting Traumas, Uncovering Recoveries

Processing Individual and Collective Trauma
Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-90-04-38319-7
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 113, 224 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 231 mm, Gewicht: 340 g

Reihe: At the Interface / Probing the Boundaries

Traumatic experiences with an overwhelming life-threatening feel affect numerous people’s lives. Death and disablement through accident, illness, war, family violence, natural and human-induced disaster can be experienced variously at an individual level through to whole communities and nations. Traumatic memories are intrusive and insistent but fragmented and distorted by the power of sensory information frozen in time. This volume examines the ways individuals, families, communities and nations have engaged with representations of traumas and the ethical dimensions embedded in those re-presentations. Contributors also explore the work of recovering from trauma and finding resilience through working with narrative and embodied forms such as dance and breathing. The ubiquity of trauma in human experience means that pathways to recovery differ, emerging from the way each engages with the world. Sharing, and reflecting on, the ways each copes with trauma contributes to its understanding as well as pathways to recovery and new strengths.

Contributors are Svetlana Antropova, Peter Bray, Kate Burton, Mark Callaghan, Marie France Forcier, Monica Hinton, Gen’ichiro Itakura, Danielle Schaub, Zeina Tarraf and Paul Vivian.

Autoren/Hrsg.

McInnes, Elspeth

Schaub, Danielle

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologie: Allgemeines

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations

Contributors’ Notes

Introduction

Elspeth McInnes and Danielle Schaub

Part 1: Representing Trauma

1 Reflections on the Wall: Artefacts and Valediction at the Vietnam Veterans’ Memorial

Mark Callaghan

2 The Attack: Doueiry’s Depoliticisation of Trauma in the Transposition from Literature to Film

Zeina Tarraf

3 Re–imagining Atomic Bombing and 9/11: Kamila Shamsie’s Burnt Shadows

Gen’ichiro Itakura

4 Filming Trauma: Bodiless Voice and Voiceless Body in Beckett’s Eh Joe

Svetlana Antropova

5 The Disturbance of Images

Paul Vivian

Part 2: Creativity and Trauma Recovery

6 Shaping Personality through Suffering: The Transformative Writing of Pat MacEnulty

Kate Burton

7 What Enables Resilience after Traumatic Childhood Experiences?

Monica Hinton

8 Investigating the Post-Traumatic Lens in the Choreographer’s Work

Marie France Forcier

9 Reading Myself and Worlds: Coping Strategies in the Face of Cumulative Trauma

Danielle Schaub

10 Holotropic Breathwork as a Therapeutic Intervention for Survivors of Trauma: An Autoethnographic Case Study

Peter Bray

Über Autor(innen)

Elspeth McInnes is a sociologist and Senior Lecturer and researcher in the School of Education at the University of South Australia. Her research engages with family violence and child abuse, child abuse recovery and prevention.

Danielle Schaub is a poet, short-story writer, photographer, and bibliotherapist as well as an Associate Professor at Oranim Academic College of Education, Israel and an Adjunct Professor at the University of Alberta, Canada. Her current research focuses on representation of trauma in contemporary Canadian fiction and psychoanalytic interpretations of cinematographic works.