Books: 'Literary trauma theory'

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Contemporary approaches in literary trauma theory. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.

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Balaev, Michelle, ed. Contemporary Approaches in Literary Trauma Theory. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137365941.

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The trauma of gender: A feminist theory of the English novel. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001.

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Aberbach, David. Surviving trauma: Loss, literature and psychoanalysis. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1989.

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Gil, Milagros Mata. Los signos de la trama: Ensayos sobre la escritura. Caracas: Ediciones La Casa de Bello, 1995.

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Balaev, M. Contemporary Approaches in Literary Trauma Theory. Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.

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Balaev, M. Contemporary Approaches in Literary Trauma Theory. Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.

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Future of Trauma Theory: Contemporary Literary Criticism. Taylor & Francis Group, 2013.

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Buelens, Gert, Robert Eaglestone, and Samuel Durrant. Future of Trauma Theory: Contemporary Literary and Cultural Criticism. Taylor & Francis Group, 2013.

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Buelens, Gert, Robert Eaglestone, and Samuel Durrant. Future of Trauma Theory: Contemporary Literary and Cultural Criticism. Taylor & Francis Group, 2013.

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Buelens, Gert, Robert Eaglestone, and Samuel Durrant. Future of Trauma Theory: Contemporary Literary and Cultural Criticism. Taylor & Francis Group, 2013.

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Buelens, Gert, Robert Eaglestone, and Samuel Durrant. Future of Trauma Theory: Contemporary Literary and Cultural Criticism. Taylor & Francis Group, 2013.

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The Future Of Trauma Theory Contemporary Literary And Cultural Criticism. Routledge, 2013.

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Onega, Susana, and Jean-Michel Ganteau. Contemporary Trauma Narratives. Taylor & Francis Group, 2018.

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Moglen, Helene. Trauma of Gender: A Feminist Theory of the English Novel. University of California Press, 2001.

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Onega, Susana, and Jean-Michel Ganteau. Contemporary Trauma Narratives: Liminality and the Ethics of Form. Taylor & Francis Group, 2014.

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Onega, Susana, and Jean-Michel Ganteau. Contemporary Trauma Narratives: Liminality and the Ethics of Form. Taylor & Francis Group, 2014.

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Onega, Susana, and Jean-Michel Ganteau. Contemporary Trauma Narratives: Liminality and the Ethics of Form. Taylor & Francis Group, 2014.

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Onega, Susana, and Jean-Michel Ganteau. Contemporary Trauma Narratives: Liminality and the Ethics of Form. Taylor & Francis Group, 2014.

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Contemporary Trauma Narratives: Liminality and the Ethics of Form. Taylor & Francis Group, 2014.

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Trauma Theory As an Approach to Analyzing Literary Texts: An Updated and Expanded Edition, with Readings. Twelve Winters Press, 2021.

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Hart, J. Poetics of Otherness: War, Trauma, and Literature. Palgrave Macmillan Limited, 2015.

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Hart, J. Poetics of Otherness: War, Trauma, and Literature. Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.

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Wales Freedman, Eden. Reading Testimony, Witnessing Trauma. University Press of Mississippi, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.14325/mississippi/9781496827333.001.0001.

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Reading Testimony, Witnessing Trauma: Confronting Race, Gender, and Violence in American Literature treats reader response to traumatic and testimonial literature written by and about African American women. Theorists emphasize the necessity of writing about—or “witnessing”—trauma to overcome it. To this critical conversation, Reading Testimony, Witnessing Trauma adds insight into the engagement of testimonial literature, articulating a theory of reading (or “dual-witnessing”) that explores how narrators and readers can witness trauma together. The book then places its original theories of traumatic reception in conversation with the African American literary tradition to speak to the histories, cultures, and traumas of African Americans, particularly the repercussions of slavery, as witnessed in American literature. This book also considers intersections of race and gender and how narrators and readers can cross such constructs to witness collectively. Reading Testimony, Witnessing Trauma’s innovative examinations of raced-gendered intersections open and speak with those works that promote dual-witnessing through the fraught (literary) histories of race and gender relations in America. To explicate how dual-witnessing converses with American literature, race theory, and gender criticism, the book analyzes emancipatory narratives by Sojourner Truth, Harriet Jacobs, and Elizabeth Keckley and novels by William Faulkner, Zora Neale Hurston, Margaret Walker, Toni Morrison, and Jesmyn Ward.

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The Poetics of Otherness: War, Trauma, and Literature. Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.

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Tanaka, Mariko Hori, Yoshiki Tajiri, and Michiko Tsushima, eds. Samuel Beckett and trauma. Manchester University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.7228/manchester/9781526121349.001.0001.

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Samuel Beckett and trauma is a collection of essays that opens new approaches to Beckett’s literary and theoretical work through the lens of trauma studies. Beginning with biographical and intertextual readings of instances of trauma in Beckett’s works, the essays take up performance studies, philosophical and cultural understanding of post-traumatic subjectivity, and provide new perspectives that will expand and alter current trauma studies. Chapter 1 deals with a whole range of traumatic symptoms in Beckett’s personal experiences which find their ways into a number of his works. Chapter 2 investigates traumatic symptoms experienced by actors on stage. Chapter 3 examines the problem of unspeakability by focusing on the face which illuminates the interface between Beckett’s work and trauma theory. Chapter 4 explores the relationship between trauma and skin – a psychic skin that reveals the ‘force and truth’ of trauma, a force that disrupts the apparatus of representation. Chapter 5 considers trauma caused by a bodily defect such as tinnitus. Chapter 6 focuses on the historically specific psychological structure in which a wounded subject is compelled to stick to ordinary life in the aftermath of some traumatic calamity. Chapter 7 provides a new way of looking at birth trauma by using the term as ‘creaturely life’ that is seen in the recent biopolitical discourses. Chapter 8 speculates on how Beckett’s post-war plays, responding to the nuclear age’s global trauma, resonate with ethical and philosophical thoughts of today’s post-Cold War era.

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Underwood, Doug. Trauma in War, Trauma in Life. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252036408.003.0004.

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This chapter examines the traumatic history of journalist–literary figures as military correspondents and observers of and participants in war, including the part they have played in developing the “code” of courageous conduct that has come to shape the “heroic” ideal of the journalist operating under dangerous conditions. The discussion begins by looking at journalists and novelists who have incorporated trauma into their awareness and their willingness to be candid about war's impact on the psyche, including Ambrose Bierce, Tobias Smollett, Walt Whitman, Kurt Vonnegut, John Hersey, and Vera Brittain. The chapter then considers the expression of the hero's code in the fiction of Stephen Crane, Rudyard Kipling, Ernest Hemingway, and other journalist–literary figures. It also explores the satire and ambivalence in attitudes about war and peace among the journalist–literary figures who have experienced military conflict firsthand.

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Rowland, Antony, and Jane Kilby. Future of Testimony: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Witnessing. Taylor & Francis Group, 2014.

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Rowland, Antony, and Jane Kilby. Future of Testimony: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Witnessing. Taylor & Francis Group, 2014.

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Rowland, Antony, and Jane Kilby. Future of Testimony: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Witnessing. Taylor & Francis Group, 2014.

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Rowland, Antony, and Jane Kilby. Future of Testimony: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Witnessing. Taylor & Francis Group, 2014.

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Rowland, Antony, and Jane Kilby. Future of Testimony: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Witnessing. Taylor & Francis Group, 2018.

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Future of Testimony: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Witnessing. Taylor & Francis Group, 2014.

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Pinchevski, Amit. Transmitted Wounds. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190625580.001.0001.

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In Transmitted Wounds, Amit Pinchevski explores the ways media technology and logic shape the social life of trauma both clinically and culturally. Bringing media theory to bear on trauma theory, Pinchevski reveals the technical operations that inform the conception and experience of traumatic impact and memory. He offers a bold thesis about the deep association of media and trauma: media bear witness to the human failure to bear witness, making the traumatic technologically transmissible and reproducible. Taking up a number of case studies--the radio broadcasts of the Eichmann trial; the videotaping of Holocaust testimonies; recent psychiatric debates about trauma through media following the 9/11 attacks; current controversy surrounding drone operators' post-trauma; and digital platforms of algorithmic-holographic witnessing and virtual reality exposure therapy for PTSD--Pinchevski demonstrates how the technological mediation of trauma feeds into the traumatic condition itself. The result is a novel understanding of media as constituting the material conditions for trauma to appear as something that cannot be fully approached and yet somehow must be. While drawing on contemporary materialist media theory, especially the work of Friedrich Kittler and his followers, Pinchevski goes beyond the anti-humanistic tendency characterizing the materialist approach, discovering media as bearing out the human vulnerability epitomized in trauma, and finding therein a basis for moral concern in the face of violence and atrocity. Transmitted Wounds unfolds the ethical and political stakes involved in the technological transmission of mental wounds across clinical, literary, and cultural contexts.

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Pederson, Joshua. Sin Sick. Cornell University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501755873.001.0001.

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This book draws on the latest research about identifying and treating the pain of perpetration to advance and deploy a literary theory of moral injury that addresses fictional representations of the mental anguish of those who have injured or killed others. The book foregrounds moral injury, a recent psychological concept distinct from trauma that is used to describe the psychic wounds suffered by those who breach their own deeply held ethical principles. Complementing writings on trauma theory that posit the textual manifestation of trauma as absence, the book argues that moral injury appears in literature in a variety of forms of excess. The author closely reads works by Dostoevsky (Crime and Punishment), Camus (The Fall), and veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan (Brian Turner's Here, Bullet; Kevin Powers' The Yellow Birds; Phil Klay's Redeployment; and Roy Scranton's War Porn), contending that recognizing and understanding the suffering of perpetrators, without condoning their crimes, enriches the experience of reading — and of being human.

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Underwood, Doug. Trauma, News, and Narrative. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252036408.003.0001.

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This book investigates the impact of trauma and coverage of violence on journalists, the subjects of their coverage, and their audience—including the possibility that journalists who have suffered early life stress (such as unhappy childhoods and distorted family relationships) may gravitate toward high-risk assignments, such as war reporting. It examines the sources and the consequences of traumatic experience in the lives of 150 journalist–literary figures in American and British history dating from the early 1700s to today—from Daniel Defoe and Jonathan Swift to Charles Dickens and Ernest Hemingway—and the traumatic events in their lives that can be viewed as contributing to their emotional struggles, the vicissitudes of their journalism careers, and their development as artists. It considers the ways that their experiences in journalism may have contributed to these writers' psychological stress and played a role in their mental health history. The book demonstrates how the intersection of journalism and fiction writing offers important insights about trauma's role in literary expression.

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Underwood, Doug. Stories of Harm, Stories of Hazard. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252036408.003.0002.

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This chapter examines the life stories of journalist–literary figures in the context of childhood history, mental health symptoms, and categories of traumatic experience that today are recognized as “triggers” of psychic conflict. More specifically, it considers the ways that journalists have coped with childhood stress and professional trauma throughout their careers. The chapter first explains the historical limitations of our understanding of trauma's role in the lives of early journalist–literary figures such as Charles Lamb, Walt Whitman, Bret Harte, and William Dean Howells before discussing religion as the early framework for understanding trauma and traumatized emotions. It then explores the link between trauma and the romantic movement, and between trauma and psychological writing, and proceeds with an analysis of psychological themes in the fiction of journalists, such as parental and family loss, abandonment, family breakup, and/or living with psychologically ill and/or alcoholic parents. It also outlines what novel writing could do that journalism did not in terms of conveying the emotional impact of traumatic experience.

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Soreanu, Raluca, Jakob Staberg, and Jenny Wilner. Ferenczi Dialogues. Leuven University Press, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.11116/9789461664860.

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Ferenczi Dialogues presents the contribution of Sándor Ferenczi to a psychoanalytic theory of trauma and discusses the philosophical, political and clinical implications of Ferenczi’s thinking. To a far greater extent than Freud, Sándor Ferenczi centered his psychoanalytic thought around trauma. Ferenczi's work pluralizes the notion of catastrophe, as being both destructive and a turning point. This book addresses Ferenczi’s work in terms of thinking in times of crises, by considering contemporary situations in constellation with various scenes from the past: the outbreak of the First World War, the crisis of psychoanalysis as an institution, the disastrous final encounter between Ferenczi and Freud, the rise of Fascism and National Socialism, and the impending exile of the founding members of the psychoanalytic movement. Against this backdrop, the authors show how Ferenczi's late work outlines a new metapsychology of fragments. Ferenczi Dialogues situates the legacy of Ferenczi within the broad interdisciplinary landscape of the social sciences, literary theory, psychoanalytic theory, and clinical practice, and highlights Ferenczi’s relevance for contemporary philosophical discussions in poststructuralism, feminism and new materialism.

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Wimbush, Antonia. Autofiction. Liverpool University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/liverpool/9781800859913.001.0001.

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Autofiction: A Female Francophone Aesthetic of Exile explores the multiple aspects of exile, displacement, mobility, and identity as expressed in contemporary autofictional work written in French by women writers from across the francophone world. Drawing on postcolonial theory, gender theory, and autobiographical theory, the book analyses narratives of exile by six authors who are shaped by their multiple locales of attachment: Kim Lefèvre (Vietnam/France), Gisèle Pineau (Guadeloupe/mainland France), Nina Bouraoui (Algeria/France), Michèle Rakotoson (Madagascar/France), Véronique Tadjo (Côte d’Ivoire/France), and Abla Farhoud (Lebanon/Quebec). In this way, the book argues that the French colonial past continues to mould female articulations of mobility and identity in the postcolonial present. Responding to gaps in the critical discourse of exile, namely gender, this book brings genre in both its forms — gender and literary genre — to bear on narratives of exile, arguing that the reconceptualization of categories of mobility occurs specifically in women’s autofictional writing. The six authors complicate discussions of exile as they are highly mobile, hybrid subjects. This rootless existence, however, often renders them alienated and ‘out of place’. While ensuring not to trivialize the very real difficulties faced by those whose exile is not a matter of choice, the book argues that the six authors experience their hybridity as both a literal and a metaphorical exile, a source of both creativity and trauma. The autofictional mode of writing becomes a means for the authors to resolve the multiple personal conflicts which arise from their migration.

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Beeston, Alix. In and Out of Sight. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190690168.001.0001.

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This book reappraises the connections between modernist writing and photography in the light of new work in visual culture studies that emphasizes the interplay between still and moving images. Arguing for the importance of photography to the work of four major modernist authors—Gertrude Stein, Jean Toomer, John Dos Passos, and F. Scott Fitzgerald—it proposes a new theory of composite literary form in the first half of the twentieth century. Segmented and reiterative, composite modernist writing is shaped by the figure of the woman-in-series, whose appearances and disappearances map its connective and disconnective structure. Understood in relation to the syntax of visual spacing in serial photography, the formal interstices that define modernist writing emerge as textual sites in which the dominant social and political order of modernity is negotiated and reshaped. These gaps signify both as marks of trauma, the wounds of representation according to typologies of race, gender, and class, and as a means for evading or defending against this trauma: a zone of withdrawal and recalcitrance for female characters. Moving in and out of sight, from presence to absence and back again, the woman-in-series in modernist writing destabilizes oppositions of power and vulnerability as they relate to the interactions of subjects and objects in the representational realm.

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Toma, Laura Monica. Identity Crises, Violence and Trauma. A Cultural and Psychoanalytical Approach to Post-War and Contemporary British Drama. Editura Universitara, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.5682/9786062811532.

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How can one aspire to reveal the intricacies and peculiarities of a literary work without imposing his/her own interpretation as the only valid one or obscuring the intended message, if there is one? Then of course, I wrote a book on violence, trauma and identity issues, something which felt baffling at times and I faced challenges of all kinds. My purpose here is not to solve this old-age problem. I can only suggest ways of averting this danger, such us my taking into account various theories when doing research on a topic, always questioning my judgments and taking care to throw light over a subject and not obfuscate it. Literary criticism can feel sometimes like a Procrustean bed but there is nothing that a genuine passion for this field cannot solve(...) The author

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Kelle, Brad E., and Brent A. Strawn, eds. The Oxford Handbook of the Historical Books of the Hebrew Bible. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190261160.001.0001.

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The Oxford Handbook of the Historical Books of the Hebrew Bible offers thirty-six essays on the so-called “Historical Books”: Joshua, Judges, 1–2 Samuel, 1–2 Kings, Ezra-Nehemiah, and 1–2 Chronicles. The essays are organized around four nodes: contexts, content, approaches, and reception. Each essay takes up two questions: (1) what does the topic/area/issue have to do with the Historical Books? and (2) how does this topic/area/issue help readers better interpret the Historical Books? The essays engage traditional theories and newer updates to the same, and also engage the textual traditions themselves which are what give rise to compositional analyses. Many essays model approaches that move in entirely different ways altogether, however, whether those are by attending to synchronic, literary, theoretical, or reception aspects of the texts at hand. The contributions range from text-critical issues to ancient historiography, state formation and development, ancient Near Eastern contexts, society and economy, political theory, violence studies, orality, feminism, postcolonialism, and trauma theory—among others. Taken together, these essays well represent the variety of options available when it comes to gathering, assessing, and interpreting these particular biblical books.

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Hiltebeitel, Alf. Moses and Monotheism and the Mahābhārata. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190878337.003.0006.

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Chapter 6 draws from Freud’s Moses and Monotheism, which posits that religious traditions, like neuroses, must be studied not only through their conscious self-presentations but also through trauma they have undergone that survives in unconscious memory traces and can return from repression. It is posited that the Mahābhārata recalls the trauma faced by a rural village and forest-based Brahmanism during India’s second urbanization, about which the epic tells its central apocalyptic myth of the unburdening of the goddess Earth from demon-inspired overpopulation. It also looks at the Mahābhārata via its putative author Vyāsa, taking him as a figure through whom to study the text’s literary experimentations. It views Vedic allusive humor as the way epic poets give play to repressed sexual themes. Freud’s 1905 Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious is a source for understanding the epic’s allusive tendentious hostile and sexual jokes about the “exposure” of women.

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Rogers, Jillian C. Resonant Recoveries. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190658298.001.0001.

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Resonant Recoveries: French Music and Trauma Between the World Wars illustrates that coping with trauma was a central concern for French musicians active after World War I. The losses and violent warfare of World War I shaped how interwar French musicians—from those fighting in the trenches and working in military hospitals to more well-known musicians—engaged with music. Situated at the intersections of musicology, history, sound and performance studies, and psychology and trauma studies, Resonant Recoveries argues that modernists’ compositions and musical activities were sonorous locations for managing and performing trauma. Through analysis of archival materials, French medical, philosophical, and literary texts, and the music produced between the wars, this book illuminates how music emerged during World War I as an embodied technology of consolation. Resonant Recoveries demonstrates that music making came to be understood by French interwar musicians as a consolatory practice that enhanced their abilities to remember lost loved ones, gave them opportunities to perform their grief publicly and privately, allowed them to create healing bonds of friendship, and soothed them with sonic vibrations and the rhythmically regular bodily movements required in order to perform many French neoclassical compositions. In revealing the importance that music making held for interwar French musicians, this book refigures French modernist music as a therapeutic medium for creators, performers, and audiences, while also underlining the importance of addressing trauma, mourning, and people’s emotional lives in music scholarship.

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Gammelgaard, Lasse R., ed. Madness and Literature. University of Exeter Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.47788/pmmg3806.

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Mental illness has been a favourite topic for authors throughout the history of literature, and, conversely, psychologists and psychiatrists like Sigmund Freud and Karl Jaspers have been interested in and influenced by literature. Pioneers within philosophy, psychiatry and literature share the endeavour to explore and explain the human mind and behaviour, including what a society deems as being outside perceived normality. This volume engages with literature’s multifarious ways of probing minds and bodies in a state of ill mental health. To encompass this diversity, the theoretical approach is eclectic and transdisciplinary. The cases and the theory are in dialogue with a clinical approach, addressing issues and diagnoses such as trauma, psychosis, bipolar disorder, eating disorders, self-harm, hoarding disorder, PTSD and Digital Sexual Assault. The volume has three parts. Chapters in Part I address literary representations of madness with a historical awareness, outlining the socio-political potentials of madness literature. Part II investigates how representations of mental illness can provide a different way of understanding what it is like to experience alternative states of mind, as well as how theoretical concepts from studies in literature can supplement the language of psychopathology. The chapters in Part III explore ways to apply literary cases in clinical practice. Throughout the book, the contributors explore and explain how the language and discourses of literature (stylistically and theoretically) can teach us something new about what it means to be in ill mental health.

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Underwood, Doug. New Challenges, New Treatments. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252036408.003.0006.

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This epilogue considers the lessons that might be taken from the lives of journalist–literary figures that would be helpful to psychologists, journalists, and the researchers who study the impact of trauma, stress, and risk-taking experiences on today's journalists and their emotional well-being. It also examines some of the challenges confronting contemporary journalists and writers in the face of various economic, demographic, and technological pressures. In particular, it discusses the ways that digital computing is altering the traditional culture of journalism—for instance, the world of the newsroom and the activities of the professional journalist. It also looks at the implications of a host of other factors that assault our psyches, such as threats of terrorism, video and televised violence, fear of crime, increases in divorce and broken families, and illegal drug use and gang hostilities. Finally, it evaluates the prospects for new treatment options available to journalist–literary figures suffering from mental health disorders and other psychological effects of traumatic experience, including psychotropic drugs that combat depression and anxiety.

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Smith-Christopher, Daniel L. Biblical Lamentations and Singing the Blues. Edited by Danna Nolan Fewell. Oxford University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199967728.013.48.

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Scholars working on the connection of literature, narrative, and trauma have made important connections between an individual’s ability to maintain a coherent sense of self (a personal narrative) and their own psychological and social well-being. Some literary expressions from traumatic circumstances, therefore, can be read as individual attempts to repair personal narratives. The biblical book of Lamentations may well be such an exercise in narrative repair. Using these ideas to introduce ways of reading the biblical book of Lamentations, the chapter makes the connection with African American blues traditions as another form of narrative repair very much in the spirit of the biblical material. In fact, the comparison with the blues may well lead to new reading strategies for Lamentations as well.

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Anderson, Amanda. The Tragic and the Ordinary. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198755821.003.0004.

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Through a discussion of the moral realism of George Eliot in relation to British psychoanalysis of the twentieth century, and the work of D. W. Winnicott in particular, this chapter demonstrates that there develops within the history of psychoanalysis a framework by which healthy moral development within ordinary conditions is described and avowed. The general forms of psychoanalysis within literary studies to date have been oriented toward the structural, drive-based models of Freud and Klein, which promote an understanding of power and aggression as primary and ineluctable. Through a comparison of the development of the conceptions of the ordinary and traumatic in Winnicott, and the opposition between the tragic and the ordinary in Eliot, this chapter develops a conception of psychological health and moral aspiration amidst precarious conditions, including contingent environmental forces of aggression, rupture, and trauma.

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Fox, Rachel Gregory, and Ahmad Qabaha, eds. Post-Millennial Palestine. Liverpool University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/liverpool/9781800348271.001.0001.

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Post-Millennial Palestine: Literature, Memory, Resistance confronts how Palestinians have recently felt obliged to re-think memory and resistance in response to dynamic political and regional changes in the twenty-first century; prolonged spatial and temporal dispossession; and the continued deterioration of the peace process. Insofar as the articulation of memory in (post)colonial contexts can be viewed as an integral component of a continuing anti-colonial struggle for self-determination, in tracing the dynamics of conveying the memory of ongoing, chronic trauma, this collection negotiates the urgency for Palestinians to reclaim and retain their heritage in a continually unstable and fretful present. The collection offers a distinctive contribution to the field of existing scholarship on Palestine, charting new ways of thinking about the critical paradigms of memory and resistance as they are produced and represented in literary works published within the post-millennial period. Reflecting on the potential for the Palestinian narrative to recreate reality in ways that both document it and resist its brutality, the critical essays in this collection show how Palestinian writers in the twenty-first century critically and creatively consider the possible future(s) of their nation.

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Brozgal, Lia. Absent the Archive. Liverpool University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/liverpool/9781789622386.001.0001.

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Cultural Traces of a Massacre in Paris: The October 17, 1961 Anarchive is the first cultural history devoted to literary and visual representations of the police massacre of peaceful Algerian protesters. Covered up by the state and hidden from history, the events of October 17 have nonetheless never been fully erased. Indeed, as early as 1962, stories about the massacre began to find their way their way into novels, poetry, songs, film, visual art, and performance. This book is about these stories, the way they have been told, and their function as both documentary and aesthetic objects. Identified here for the first time as a corpus—an anarchive—the works in question produce knowledge about October 17 by narrativizing and contextualizing the massacre, registering its existence, its scale, and its erasure, while also providing access to the subjective experiences of violence and trauma. Cultural Traces of a Massacre is invested in exploring how literature and culture may “do history” differently by complicating it, whether by functioning as first responders and persistent witnesses; reverberating against reality but also speculating on what might have been; activating networks of signs and meaning; or by showing us things that otherwise cannot be seen. This book provokes important questions about the aesthetic, ethical, and political stakes of representation.

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