How Trauma Resonates: Art, Literature and Theoretical Practice
How Trauma Resonates: Art, Literature and Theoretical Practice

Author: Mark Callaghan

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2019-01-04

Total Pages: 184

ISBN-13: 1848882394

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This volume was first published by Inter-Disciplinary Press in 2014. What emerged from the 3rd Global Conference on Trauma Theory and Practice was a lively and informed view of the different ways our history, personal experiences, education, and forms of entertainment are shaped by trauma and its resultant interpretations. This volume comprises numerous academic papers concerning essential subjects in relation to trauma, from literary representations of and responses to war-related trauma, to the articulating of suffering and other traumatic legacies of colonialism. Key scholars, including Cathy Caruth and Ann E. Kaplan, are employed to develop these important research areas, as conference participants provide new insights into artistic representations of trauma and their subsequent analysis. Significant time is also dedicated to papers concerning post-traumatic growth and the role of psycho-spiritual transformation in the process, outcomes, and management of trauma. Using clinical examples, valuable research concerning the creation of safe learning environments for traumatized children is also discussed, along with additional research concerning Sandplay therapy and the theoretical and empirical aspects of time.

The Palgrave Handbook of Magical Realism in the Twenty-First Century
The Palgrave Handbook of Magical Realism in the Twenty-First Century

Author: Richard Perez

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2020-04-30

Total Pages: 651

ISBN-13: 3030398358

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The Palgrave Handbook of Magical Realism in the Twenty-First Century examines magical realism in literatures from around the globe. Featuring twenty-seven essays written by leading scholars, this anthology argues that literary expressions of magical realism proliferate globally in the twenty-first century due to travel and migrations, the shrinking of time and space, and the growing encroachment of human life on nature. In this global context, magical realism addresses twenty-first-century politics, aesthetics, identity, and social/national formations where contact between and within cultures has exponentially increased, altering how communities and nations imagine themselves. This text assembles a group of critics throughout the world—the Americas, Europe, Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and Australia—who employ multiple theoretical approaches to examine the different ways magical realism in literature has transitioned to a global practice; thus, signaling a new stage in the history and development of the genre.

Functions of Psalms and Prayers in the Late Second Temple Period
Functions of Psalms and Prayers in the Late Second Temple Period

Author: Mika S. Pajunen

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2017-07-24

Total Pages: 516

ISBN-13: 3110449269

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When thinking about psalms and prayers in the Second Temple period, the Masoretic Psalter and its reception is often given priority because of modern academic or theological interests. This emphasis tends to skew our understanding of the corpus we call psalms and prayers and often dampens or mutes the lived context within which these texts were composed and used. This volume is comprised of a collection of articles that explore the diverse settings in which psalms and prayers were used and circulated in the late Second Temple period. The book includes essays by experts in the Hebrew bible, the Dead Sea scrolls, Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha, and the New Testament, in which a wide variety of topics, approaches, and methods both old and new are utilized to explore the many functions of psalms and prayers in the late Second Temple period. Included in this volume are essays examining how psalms were read as prophecy, as history, as liturgy, and as literature. A variety methodologies are employed, and include the use of cognitive sciences and poetics, linguistic theory, psychology, redaction criticism, and literary theory.

Empathetic Memorials
Empathetic Memorials

Author: Mark Callaghan

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2020-11-12

Total Pages: 259

ISBN-13: 303050932X

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This book is a study of the Berlin Holocaust Memorial Competitions of the 1990s, with a focus on designs that kindle empathetic responses. Through analysis of provocative designs, the book engages with issues of empathy, secondary witnessing, and depictions of concentration camp iconography. It explores the relationship between empathy and cultural memory when representations of suffering are notably absent. The book submits that one design represents the idea of an uncanny memorial, and also pays attention to viewer co-authorship in counter-monuments. Analysis of counter-monuments also include their creative engagement with German history and their determination to defy fascist aesthetics. As the winning design for The Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe is abstract with an information centre, there is an exploration of the memorial museum. Callaghan asks whether this configuration is intended to compensate for the abstract memorial’s ambiguity or to complement the design’s visceral potential. Other debates explored concern political memory, national memory, and the controversy of dedicating the memorial exclusively to murdered Jews.

Critical Trauma Studies
Critical Trauma Studies

Author: Monica Casper

Publisher: NYU Press

Published: 2016-03-15

Total Pages: 305

ISBN-13: 1479822515

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1. Within trauma : an introduction / Eric Wertheimer and Monica J. Casper -- I. Politics -- 2. Trauma is as trauma does : the politics of affect in catastrophic times / Maurice E. Stevens -- 3. "She was just a Chechen" : the female suicide bomber as a site of collective suffering in wartime Chechen Republic / Francine Banner -- 4. Naming sexual trauma : on the political necessity of nuance in rape and sex offender discourses / Breanne Fahs -- 5. Conceptualizing forgiveness in the face of historical trauma / Carmen Goman and Douglas Kelley -- II. Poetics -- 6. Bahareh : singing without words in an Iranian prison camp / Shahla Talebi -- 7. Voices of silence : on speaking from within the void (a response to Shahla Talebi) / Gabriele M. Schwab -- 8. Future's past : a conversation about the Holocaust with Gabriele M. Schwab / Martin Beck Matuštík -- 9. "No other tale to tell" : trauma and acts of forgetting in The road / Amanda Wicks -- 10. Body animations (or, Lullaby for Fallujah) : a performance / Jackie Orr -- III. Praxis -- 11. First responders : a pedagogy for writing and reading trauma / Amy Hodges Hamilton -- 12. Answering the call : crisis intervention and rape survivor advocacy as witnessing trauma / Debra Jackson -- 13. Documenting disaster : Hurricane Katrina and one family's saga / Rebecca Hankins and Akua Duku Anokye -- 14. A cure for bitterness / Dorothy Allison

Unclaimed Experience
Unclaimed Experience

Author: Cathy Caruth

Publisher: JHU Press

Published: 2016-12-15

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13: 1421421658

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Her afterword serves as a decisive intervention in the ongoing discussions in and about the field.

Trauma and Literature
Trauma and Literature

Author: J. Roger Kurtz

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2018-03-15

Total Pages: 416

ISBN-13: 1316821277

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As a concept, 'trauma' has attracted a great deal of interest in literary studies. A key term in psychoanalytic approaches to literary study, trauma theory represents a critical approach that enables new modes of reading and of listening. It is a leading concept of our time, applicable to individuals, cultures, and nations. This book traces how trauma theory has come to constitute a discrete but influential approach within literary criticism in recent decades. It offers an overview of the genesis and growth of literary trauma theory, recording the evolution of the concept of trauma in relation to literary studies. In twenty-one essays, covering the origins, development, and applications of trauma in literary studies, Trauma and Literature addresses the relevance and impact this concept has in the field.