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Record Nr.

UNINA9910792971703321

Autore

Yusin Jennifer

Titolo

The Future Life of Trauma : Partitions, Borders, Repetition / / Jennifer Yusin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, NY : , : Fordham University Press, , [2017]

©2017

ISBN

0-8232-7549-3

0-8232-7713-5

0-8232-7548-5

Edizione

[First Edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (217 pages)

Classificazione

PHI027000LIT006000

Disciplina

302

Soggetti

Civilization - History - 20th century

Postcolonialism

Social psychology

LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory

PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Deconstruction

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Prologue: The Place of a Thousand Hills -- Introduction: The Interface of Trauma -- 1. The Problem of Trauma -- 2. The Eventality of Trauma -- 3. Whither Partition? -- 4. Rwanda Transforming -- After Word -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

The Future Life of Trauma elaborates a transformation in the concepts of trauma and event by situating a groundbreaking encounter between psychoanalytic and postcolonial discourse. Proceeding from the formation of psychical life as presented in the Freudian metapsychology, it thinks anew the relation between temporality and traumatized subjectivity, demonstrating how the psychic event, as a traumatic event, is a material reality that alters the character of the structure of repetition. By examining the role of borders in the history of the 1947 partition of British India and the politics of memorialization in postgenocide Rwanda, The Future Life of Trauma brings to light the implications of trauma as a material event in contemporary nation-formation, sovereignty, and geopolitical violence. In showing how the



form of the psyche changes in the encounter, it presents a challenge to the category of difference in the condition of identity, resulting in the formation of a concept of life that elaborates a new relation to destruction and finitude by asserting its power to transform itself.