Overview

This collection casts the spotlight on Asia and its place in global studies on trauma to explore the ways in which violence and trauma is (re)enacted, (re)presented, (re)imagined, reconciled and consumed through various mediums in the region. The discussions revolve around the ethics of representing and discussing trauma as we negotiate the tensions between trauma and political, historical, literary and cultural representations in written, visual, digital and hybrid forms. It examines how perspectives about trauma are framed, perpetuated and/or critiqued via theories and research methods, and how a constructive tension between theory, method and experience is essential for critical discourse on the subject. It will discuss varied ways of understanding violence through multidisciplinary perspectives and comparative literature, explore the ‘violent psyches’ of narratives and writings across multiple mediums and platforms, and engage with how violence and trauma continue to influence the telling and form of such narratives.

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Author:   Yiru Lim ,  Kit Ying Lye (Singapore University of Social Sciences, Singapore)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
ISBN:  

9781032628820

ISBN 10:   1032628820
Pages:   240
Publication Date:   24 December 2024
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming
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Table of Contents

List of Figures and Table List of Contributors Acknowledgments Introduction: Reading Trauma and Violence: Expanding Horizons Yiru Lim and Kit Ying Lye i Part 1 Imagining and Reimagining 1. The Human Inclination Toward Violence and Where We Stand in the Age of Mass Consumption Michael Kearney 2. Fictional Testimonies: Narrative structures of resistance in White Chrysanthemum and How We Disappeared W. Michelle Wang 3. Fictive Realities: Witnessing and the Imagination in The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida Yiru Lim 4. Representing Anthropocene Trauma: Disaster Narratives of the Bhopal Gas Tragedy in Indian Cinema Sony Jalarajan Raj and Adith K. Suresh 5. The Unbearable Lightness of the Future-Shock-Myth-Traumatized Swallowers: A Reading of the Assassination of Shinzo Abe Setsuko Adachi Part 2 Remembering and Forgetting 6. National Identities, Hybrid Postmemory, and Cultural Remediation in Akira Mizubayashi's Novel Reine de Coeur Priscilla Charrat-Nelson 7. Giving a Voice Back to the Families of Soviet ‘Public Enemies’ Through Postmemory Graphic Narratives Iana Nikitenko 8. The Telling of Violence, and the Violence of the Telling: Narrative and the Choice to Forget in Tan Twan Eng’s The Garden of Evening Mists Claudia J. M. Cornelissen 9. Mass Graves and Topography: Narrating Violence through the Visible Reminders of the Nellie Massacre, 1983 Jabeen Yasmeen 10. Refugee Poetics: Reassembling the Syrian Identity on Digital Media Waed Hasan Part 3 Reclaiming and Telling 11. Beyond the Impossibility of Representation: Aesthetic Politics in Yun Ch’oe’s There a Petal Silently Falls Heejung Kang 12. Words Stuck in the Throat: The Paradox of Deep Silence and Narrative Plenty in Postwar Lebanese Fiction Renée Ragin Randall 13. Speaking the Unspeakable in Nora Okja Keller’s Comfort Woman Judy Joo-Ae Bae 14. Listening to Lost Voices: Reading Wartime Rape in Vyvyane Loh’s Breaking the Tongue Nicole Ong 15. “We Must Find a Way to Do More Than Endure,” Silence as Resistance in Charmaine Craig’s Miss Burma Kit Ying Lye 16. Tasting Loss Joy Xin Yuan Wang and Hairuo Jin Index

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Yiru Lim is a Senior Lecturer at the College of Interdisciplinary and Experiential Learning at the Singapore University of Social Sciences. Her dissertation focused on the changing novel form and its relationship to the imagination from the twentieth century to the contemporary, and her main research interests include ekphrasis, narrative and the imagination, and narratives of illness and pain. She has published in the Review of Irish Studies in Europe (RISE) and was co-author of Coal Mining and Gentrification in Japan published in 2019. Kit Ying Lye is currently Senior Lecturer at the Singapore University of Social Sciences. Her dissertation focuses on the use of magical realism in the re-presentation of Cold War violence in Southeast Asian literature. Her research interests are mainly, the Cold War in Southeast Asia, history and its remembrance, and death in Southeast Asian literature and culture, and Southeast Asian Cultural Heritage. She has published works that discuss the use of literature to represent civil wars in Southeast Asia. She is also the principal investigator of the research project on Singapore Chinese Funerary Practices. She is the co-editor of Death and the Afterlife: Multidisciplinary Perspectives from a Global City (Routledge).

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