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Record Nr.

UNINA9910790534103321

Titolo

Traumatic affect / / edited by Meera Atkinson and Michael Richardson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : , : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, , 2013

ISBN

1-4438-5221-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (308 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

AtkinsonMeera

RichardsonMichael

Disciplina

308

Soggetti

Psychic trauma

Affect (Psychology)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

part I. Silence -- part II. Cultures -- part III. Mediatized -- part Ivolume Embodied.

Sommario/riassunto

Traumatic Affect examines the intersection of trauma theory and affect theory, two areas of crucial relevance to contemporary thought. While both fields continue to offer insights into individual and collective experience, exploring their nexus offers timely and necessary critiques of film, literature, art, culture and politics.This collection of essays by established and emerging thinkers considers the dynamic relations within and between affect and trauma. Varied in style and approach, this volume asks how the relational subject conceived by affect theory might bring into question certain pr