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Record Nr.

UNISA996218667703316

Titolo

Trauma and life stories : international perspectives / / edited by Kim Lacy Rogers, Selma Leydesdorff, and Graham Dawson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1999

ISBN

1-134-62373-9

1-134-62374-7

1-280-33027-9

9786610330270

0-203-25513-5

0-203-06472-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (273 p.)

Collana

Routledge studies in memory and narrative ; ; v. 2

Altri autori (Persone)

DawsonGraham <1956->

LeydesdorffSelma

RogersKim Lacy

Disciplina

616.85/21

Soggetti

Psychic trauma

Post-traumatic stress disorder

Reminiscing - Therapeutic use

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

Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of illustrations and tables; List of contributors; Introduction: Trauma and life stories SELMA LEYDESDORFF, GRAHAM DAWSON, NATASHA BURCHARDT AND T. G. ASHPLANT; Case studies; Trauma signals in life stories GADI BENEZER; Remembering and forgetting: Guatemalan war widows' forbidden memories JUDITH ZUR; Interviewing in a culture of violence: moving memories from Windermere to the Cape Flats SEAN FIELD; Oppression, resistance and imprisonment: a montage ofdifferent but similar stories in two countries JAN COETZEE AND OTAKAR HULEC

The unending war: social myth, individual memory and the Malvinas FEDERICO LORENZLynching stories: family and community memory in the Mississippi Delta KIM LACY ROGERS; Containing violence: poisoning and guerilla/civilian resistance in memories of Zimbabwe's liberation war JOANN MCGREGOR; Naming and claiming: the integration of



traumatic experience and the reconstruction of self in survivors' stories of sexual abuse SUSAN ROSE; Trauma, memory, politics: the Irish Troubles GRAHAM DAWSON; Debates and reviews; Reality or nothing! False and repressed memories and autobiography J. P. ROOS

Human disaster, social trauma and community memory ARTHUR HANSENTrauma and the long-term life story PAUL THOMPSON; Review article: Paul Antze and Michael Lambek (eds), Tense Past: Cultural Essays in Trauma and Memory TINA PAPOULIAS; Review article: Elaine Showalter, Hystories: Hysterical Epidemics and Modern Culture SUSANNAH RADSTONE; Index

Sommario/riassunto

In this volume leading academics explore the relationship between the experiences of terror and helplessness, the way in which survivors remember and the representation of these memories in the language and form of their life stories.