Trauma And The Failure Of History
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Author | : David Janzen |
Publisher | : SBL Press |
Total Pages | : 184 |
Release | : 2019-08-02 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0884143392 |
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A theoretical and exegetical exploration of trauma in the Hebrew Bible David Janzen discusses the concepts of history and trauma and contrasts the ways historians and trauma survivors grapple with traumatic events, a contrast embodied in the very different ways the books of Kings and Lamentations react to the destruction of Jerusalem. Janzen’s study warns that explanations in histories will tend to silence the voices of trauma survivors, and it challenges traditional approaches that sometimes portray the explanations of traumatic events in biblical literature as therapeutic for victims. Features: Exploration of history as a narrative explanation that creates a past readers can recognize to be true Examination of how trauma results in a failure of victims to fully experience or remember traumatic events. A case for why the past is a construction of cultures and historians
Author | : Michael O'Loughlin |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 341 |
Release | : 2014-11-05 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 1442231866 |
Download Fragments of Trauma and the Social Production of Suffering Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Fragments of Trauma and the Social Production of Suffering: Trauma, History, and Memory offers a kaleidoscope of perspectives that highlight the problem of traumatic memory. Because trauma fragments memory, storytelling is impeded by what is unknowable and what is unspeakable. Each of the contributors tackles the problem of narrativizing memory that is constructed from fragments that have been passed along the generations. When trauma is cultural as well as personal, it becomes even more invisible, as each generation’s attempts at coping push the pain further below the surface. Consequently, that pain becomes increasingly ineffable, haunting succeeding generations. In each story the contributors offer, there emerges the theme of difference, a difference that turns back on itself and makes an accusation. Themes of knowing and unknowing show the terrible toll that trauma takes when there is no one with whom the trauma can be acknowledged and worked through. In the face of utter lack of recognition, what might be known together becomes hidden. Our failure to speak to these unaspirated truths becomes a betrayal of self and also of others. In the case of intergenerational and cultural trauma, we betray not only our ancestors but also the future generations to come. In the face of unacknowledged trauma, this book reveals that we are confronted with the perennial choice of speaking or becoming complicit in our silence.
Author | : Aimee Pozorski |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 223 |
Release | : 2011-07-14 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1441175687 |
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Roth and Trauma: The Problem of History in the Later Works (1995-2010) moves beyond a critical reception of Philip Roth's recent fiction that has focused primarily on an interest in post WWII America. By contrast, Aimee Pozorski argues that these novels grapple more comprehensively with US history in their fascination with America's "traumatic beginnings" and the legacy of the American Revolution. Drawing on close readings and trauma theory, Roth and Trauma reveals the problem of history in Roth's later works to be the unexpected and repeated appearance of historical trauma that links the still-unfinished American dream with the nightmarish quality of our recent history.
Author | : Peter Leese |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 313 |
Release | : 2016-10-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 3319334700 |
Download Traumatic Memories of the Second World War and After Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
This collection investigates the social and cultural history of trauma to offer a comparative analysis of its individual, communal, and political effects in the twentieth century. Particular attention is given to witness testimony, to procedures of personal memory and collective commemoration, and to visual sources as they illuminate the changing historical nature of trauma. The essays draw on diverse methodologies, including oral history, and use varied sources such as literature, film and the broadcast media. The contributions discuss imaginative, communal and political responses, as well as the ways in which the later welfare of traumatized individuals is shaped by medical, military, and civilian institutions. Incorporating innovative methodologies and offering a thorough evaluation of current research, the book shows new directions in historical trauma studies.
Author | : J. Roger Kurtz |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 416 |
Release | : 2018-03-15 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 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.
Author | : Rudolph Binion |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 166 |
Release | : 2018-03-26 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 0429923325 |
Download Traumatic Reliving in History, Literature and Film Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Traumatic Reliving in History, Literature, and Film explores an intriguing facet of human behavior never yet examined in its own right - an individual or a group may contrive, unawares, to repeat a half-forgotten traumatic experience in disguise. Such reliving has shaped major careers and large-scale events throughout history. Insight into it is therefore vital for understanding historic causation past and present. Traumatic Reliving has also proliferated in literature since antiquity and lately in film as well, indicating its tacit acceptance as a piece of life by the reading and movie-going public. This book examines the evidence of history, literature, and film on how this irrational behavioral mechanism works.
Author | : Devon E. Hinton |
Publisher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 440 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 0812247140 |
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Culture and PTSD examines the applicability of PTSD to cultural contexts beyond Europe and North America and details local responses to trauma and how they vary from PTSD as defined by the American Psychiatric Association.
Author | : Ruth Leys |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 212 |
Release | : 2009-01-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1400827981 |
Download From Guilt to Shame Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Why has shame recently displaced guilt as a dominant emotional reference in the West? After the Holocaust, survivors often reported feeling guilty for living when so many others had died, and in the 1960s psychoanalysts and psychiatrists in the United States helped make survivor guilt a defining feature of the "survivor syndrome." Yet the idea of survivor guilt has always caused trouble, largely because it appears to imply that, by unconsciously identifying with the perpetrator, victims psychically collude with power. In From Guilt to Shame, Ruth Leys has written the first genealogical-critical study of the vicissitudes of the concept of survivor guilt and the momentous but largely unrecognized significance of guilt's replacement by shame. Ultimately, Leys challenges the theoretical and empirical validity of the shame theory proposed by figures such as Silvan Tomkins, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, and Giorgio Agamben, demonstrating that while the notion of survivor guilt has depended on an intentionalist framework, shame theorists share a problematic commitment to interpreting the emotions, including shame, in antiintentionalist and materialist terms.
Author | : Dominick LaCapra |
Publisher | : JHU Press |
Total Pages | : 265 |
Release | : 2014-09-03 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1421414015 |
Download Writing History, Writing Trauma Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
An updated edition of a major work in trauma studies. Trauma and its aftermath pose acute problems for historical representation and understanding. In Writing History, Writing Trauma, Dominick LaCapra critically analyzes attempts by theorists and literary critics to come to terms with trauma and with the crucial role post-traumatic testimonies—notably Holocaust testimonies—assume in thought and in writing. These attempts are addressed in a series of six interlocking essays that adapt psychoanalytic concepts to historical analysis, while employing sociocultural and political critique to elucidate trauma and its aftereffects in culture and in people. This updated edition includes a substantive new preface that reconsiders some of the issues raised in the book.
Author | : Cathy Caruth |
Publisher | : JHU Press |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 2016-12-15 |
Genre | : LITERARY CRITICISM |
ISBN | : 1421421658 |
Download Unclaimed Experience Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Her afterword serves as a decisive intervention in the ongoing discussions in and about the field.