The edges of trauma : explorations in visual art and literature / / edited by Tamás Bényei and Alexandra Stara ; contributors, Catherine Barrette [and twelve others]

• Pubblicazione: Newcastle upon Tyne, [England] : , : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, , 2014; ©2014
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (234 p.)
• Disciplina: 809.93353
• Soggetto topico: Psychic trauma in literature; Psychic trauma in art
• Persona (resp. second.): BényeiTamás; StaraAlexandra <1967-, >; BarretteCatherine
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
• Nota di contenuto: TABLE OF CONTENTS; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; INTRODUCTION; "BROKENWARRIORS, TORTURED SOULS"; AN EXPLOSION THAT LED TO PARADISE; TRAUMA AND "ORDINARY WORDS"; THE PSYCHOPATHOLOGY OF COLONIAL LIFE; LYING FOR COMPANY; TRAUMA OBSCURA REVEALED; THE BODY AND COMMUNITYIN FELIX GONZALEZ-TORRES' CANDY SPILLSOR TOWARDS A POSITIVE METAPHOROF ILLNESS; CAUGHT IN THE GRIP OF AN INHERITED PAST; "THE PROBLEM IS, I'M NOT SURE I BELIEVEIN THE THUNDERCLAP OF TRAUMA"; TRAUMA; TRACES OF TRAUMA; THE TRAUMA OF SUBURBIA; 9/11, TELEVISION COMEDY,AND THE IDEOLOGY OF "NATIONAL TRAUMA"; CONTRIBUTORS; INDEX
• Sommario/riassunto: A collection of essays by an international group of scholars, The Edges of Trauma: Explorations in Visual Art and Literature addresses the vast cultural and discursive construction that trauma has become in recent decades. Unravelling aspects of representing, narrating, testifying to trauma and of sharing or conveying traumatic non-experience, many of the essays offer new perspectives on traditionally central topics of trauma studies, including shellshock, sexual abuse, the Holocaust, AIDS an...
• Titolo autorizzato: The edges of trauma
• ISBN: 1-4438-6322-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910818621803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II