Trauma: explorations in memory
"Because traumatic events are unbearable in their horror and intensity, they often exist as memories that are not immediately recognizable as truth. Such experiences are best understood not only through the straightforward acquisition of facts but through a process of discovering where and why conscious understanding and memory fail. Literature, according to Cathy Caruth and others, opens a window on traumatic experience because it teaches readers to listen to what can be told only in indirect …
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- Full title :Trauma : explorations in memory / edited with introductions by Cathy Caruth.
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"Because traumatic events are unbearable in their horror and intensity, they often exist as memories that are not immediately recognizable as truth. Such experiences are best understood not only through the straightforward acquisition of facts but through a process of discovering where and why conscious understanding and memory fail. Literature, according to Cathy Caruth and others, opens a window on traumatic experience because it teaches readers to listen to what can be told only in indirect and surprising ways. Sociology, film, and political activism can also provide new ways of thinking about and responding to the experience of trauma.
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- Publication Date:1995.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Johns Hopkins University Press
- Place of Publication:Baltimore
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:1995.
The Physical Object
- Description:IX, 277 p. ; : 24 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:0801850096, 9780801850097, 080185007X, 9780801850073
- oclc:ocn638761251
- LC Classification:BF175.5.P75
- Dewey Decimal:155.935
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