Narrating Trauma : On the Impact of Collective Suffering.
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- 9781612053462
- 303.6
- BF789.S8 -- N37 2011eb
Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: On Social Suffering and Its Cultural Construction -- PART 1 NATIONAL SUFFERING AND WORLD WAR -- 1. A Fire That Doesn't Burn? The Allied Bombing of Germany and the Cultural Politics of Trauma -- 2. The Cultural Trauma of a Fallen Nation: Japan, 1945 -- 3. Revolutionary Trauma and Representation of the War: The Case of China in Mao's Era -- PART 2 ETHNIC SUFFERING AND CIVIL WAR -- 4. The Trauma of Kosovo in Serbian National Narratives -- 5. Trauma Construction and Moral Restriction: The Ambiguity of the Holocaust for Israel -- 6. The Drama of the Greek Civil War Trauma -- 7. 1974 and Greek Cypriot Identity: The Division of Cyprus as Cultural Trauma -- PART 3 THE PERFORMANCE OF SUFFERING AND HEALING -- 8. Extending Trauma Across Cultural Divides: On Kidnapping and Solidarity in Colombia -- 9. Claiming Trauma through Social Performance: The Case of Waiting for Godot -- 10. The Worst Was the Silence: The Unfinished Drama of the Katyn Massacre -- 11. Unassimilable Otherness: The Reworking of Traumas by Refugees in Contemporary South Africa -- About the Contributors.
Explores the cultural and social construction of trauma through case studies of historical and contemporary crises across the world.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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