The edges of trauma : explorations in visual art and literature /
A collection of essays by an international group of scholars, The Edges of Trauma: Explorations in Visual Art and Literature addresses the vast cultural and discursive construction that trauma has become in recent decades. Unravelling aspects of representing, narrating, testifying to trauma and of s...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Newcastle upon Tyne :
Cambridge Scholars Publishing,
2014.
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Table of Contents:
- Table of contents; list of illustrations; introduction; "brokenwarriors, tortured souls"; an explosion that led to paradise; trauma and "ordinary words"; the psychopathology of colonial life; lying for company; trauma obscura revealed; the body and communityin felix gonzalez-torres' candy spillsor towards a positive metaphorof illness; caught in the grip of an inherited past; "the problem is, i'm not sure i believein the thunderclap of trauma"; trauma; traces of trauma; the trauma of suburbia; 9/11, television comedy, and the ideology of "national trauma"; contributors; index.
