Critical Trauma Studies: Understanding Violence, Conflict and Memory in Everyday Life

Published by New York University Press 2016

Critical Trauma Studies

Understanding Violence, Conflict and Memory in Everyday Life

Edited by: Monica Casper , Eric Wertheimer and Eric Wertheimer

https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9781479896561.001.0001

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About this book

Trauma is a universal human experience. While each person responds differently to trauma, its presence in our lives nonetheless marks a continual thread through human history and prehistory. In Critical Trauma Studies, a diverse group of writers, activists, and scholars of sociology, anthropology, literature, and cultural studies reflects on the study of trauma and how multidisciplinary approaches lend richness and a sense of deeper understanding to this burgeoning field of inquiry. The original essays within this collection cover topics such as female suicide bombers from the Chechen Republic, singing prisoners in Iranian prison camps, sexual assault and survivor advocacy, and families facing the devastation of Hurricane Katrina. As it proceeds, Critical Trauma Studies never loses sight of the way those who study trauma as an academic field, and those who experience, narrate, and remediate trauma as a personal and embodied event, inform one another. Theoretically adventurous and deeply particular, this book aims to advance trauma studies as a discipline that transcends intellectual boundaries, to be mapped but also to be unmoored from conceptual and practical imperatives. Remaining embedded in lived experiences and material realities, Critical Trauma Studies frames the field as both richly unbounded and yet clearly defined, historical, and evidence-based.

Author / Editor information

Casper Monica J. :

Monica J. Casper is Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies and an affiliated faculty member in the School of Sociology and the Africana Studies Program at the University of Arizona. Her publications include Missing Bodies: The Politics of Visibility.Wertheimer Eric :

Eric Wertheimer is Professor of English and Associate Vice Provost of the Graduate College at Arizona State University, where he is the Founding Director of the Center for Critical Inquiry and Cultural Studies. He is the author of Underwriting: The Poetics of Insurance in Early America and Imagined Empires: Incas, Aztecs, and the New World of American Literature, 1771-1876, as well as many works of poetry and prose. Mylar, his first book of poetry, was published by BlazeVOX in 2012.Wertheimer Eric :

Eric
Wertheimer is
Professor of English and Associate Vice Provost of the Graduate College at
Arizona State University, where he is the Founding Director of the Center for Critical Inquiry
and Cultural Studies. He is the author of Underwriting: The Poetics of Insurance in Early America and Imagined Empires: Incas, Aztecs, and the New
World of American Literature, 1771-1876, as well as many works of poetry
and prose. Mylar, his first book of
poetry, was published by BlazeVOX in 2012.

Reviews

The articles provide us with thought-provoking insights into social and cultural aspects of personal experiences of trauma.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
1. Within Trauma: An Introduction Eric Wertheimer and Monica J. Casper Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
I. Politics
2. Trauma Is as Trauma Does: The Politics of Affect in Catastrophic Times Maurice E. Stevens Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	19
3. “She Was Just a Chechen”: The Female Suicide Bomber as a Site of Collective Suffering in Wartime Chechen Republic Francine Banner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	37
4. Naming Sexual Trauma: On the Political Necessity of Nuance in Rape and Sex Offender Discourses Breanne Fahs Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	61
5. Conceptualizing Forgiveness in the Face of Historical Trauma Carmen Goman and Douglas Kelley Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	78
II. Poetics
6. Bahareh: Singing without Words in an Iranian Prison Camp Shahla Talebi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	101
7. Voices of Silence: On Speaking from within the Void (A Response to Shahla Talebi) Gabriele M. Schwab Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	111
8. Future’s Past: A Conversation about the Holocaust with Gabriele M. Schwab Martin Beck Matuštík Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	122
9. “No Other Tale to Tell”: Trauma and Acts of Forgetting in The Road Amanda Wicks Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	135
10. Body Animations (or, Lullaby for Fallujah): A Performance Jackie Orr Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	157
III. Praxis
11. First Responders: A Pedagogy for Writing and Reading Trauma Amy Hodges Hamilton Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	179
12. Answering the Call: Crisis Intervention and Rape Survivor Advocacy as Witnessing Trauma Debra Jackson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	205
13. Documenting Disaster: Hurricane Katrina and One Family’s Saga Rebecca Hankins and Akua Duku Anokye Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	227
14. A Cure for Bitterness Dorothy Allison Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	244
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	257
About the Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	281
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	287

Language: English
Publisher: New York University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;

eBook

Published: March 15, 2016
ISBN: 9781479828425