The trauma question
Roger Luckhurst introduces and advances the fields of cultural memory and trauma studies, tracing the ways in which ideas of trauma have become a major element in contemporary Western conceptions of the self.
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- Full title :The trauma question / Roger Luckhurst.
Summary
Roger Luckhurst introduces and advances the fields of cultural memory and trauma studies, tracing the ways in which ideas of trauma have become a major element in contemporary Western conceptions of the self.
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- Publication Date:2008.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Routledge
- Place of Publication:London
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2008.
The Physical Object
- Description:x, 240 pages : : illustrations ; : 24 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780415402729, 9780415402712, 0415402727, 0415402719
- oclc:ocn183179448
- LC Classification:NX449.5
- Dewey Decimal:709.04001/9
Table of Contents
The genealogy of a concept -- Trauma and modernity -- law of 'nervous shock' -- Trauma in psychology 1870-1914 -- Trauma in the war ecology: shell shock -- Trauma and the politics of identity: Vietnam, Holocaust and abuse survivors -- Trauma in narrative fiction -- Beloved: a paradigmatic trauma fiction -- Stephen King's trauma gothic -- Mainstream fiction and traumatic anachrony -- W.G. Sebald: the last trawnatophile? -- My so-called life: the memoir boom -- Five elements towards the trauma memoir -- Memoir and the judicious truth -- Generating autofictions: Philip Roth, Herve Guibert, Kathryn Harrison --intrusive image: photography and trauma -- The fine art of trauma -- Aftermath aesthetics: Christian Boltanski, Gerhard Richter, Tracey Moffatt -- Beautiful books of atrocity: Sebastiao Salgado, Giles Peress, Luc Delahaye -- Flashbacks, mosaics and loops: Trauma and narrative cinema -- genealogy of the traumatic flashback -- Three trauma auteurs: Alain Resnais, Atom Egoyan, David Lynch -- Trauma and 'post-classical' film since 1990.
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