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This volume addresses trauma not only from a theoretical, descriptive and therapeutic perspective, but also through the survivor as narrator, meaning maker, and presenter. By conceptualising different outlooks on trauma, exploring transfigurations in writing and art, and engaging trauma through scriptotherapy, dharma art, autoethnography, photovoice and choreography, the interdisciplinary dialogue highlights the need for rethinking and re-examining trauma, as classical treatments geared towards healing do not recognise the potential for transfiguration inherent in the trauma itself. The investigation of the fissures, disruptions and shifts after punctual traumatic events or prolonged exposure to verbal and physical abuse, illness, war, captivity, incarceration, and chemical exposure, amongst others, leads to a new understanding of the transformed self and empowering post-traumatic developments. Contributors are Peter Bray, Francesca Brencio, Mark Callaghan, M. Candace Christensen, Diedra L. Clay, Leanne Dodd, Marie France Forcier, Gen’ichiro Itakura, Jacqueline Linder, Elwin Susan John, Kori D. Novak, Cassie Pedersen, Danielle Schaub, Nicholas Quin Serenati, Aslı Tekinay, Tony M. Vinci and Claudio Zanini.

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Author:   Danielle Schaub ,  Jacqueline Linder ,  Kori Novak ,  Stephanie Y. Tam
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   126
Weight:   0.583kg
ISBN:  

9789004405431

ISBN 10:   9004405437
Pages:   354
Publication Date:   29 August 2019
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Introduction – Mapping the Topography of Trauma  Danielle Schaub Part 1 Conceptualising Trauma 1 The Continuum of Trauma  Francesca Brencio and Kori D. Novak 2 Encountering Trauma ‘Too Soon’ and ‘Too Late’: Caruth, Laplanche, and the Freudian Nachträglichkeit  Cassie Pedersen 3 ‘A World of Death and Phantoms’: Auschwitz, Androids, and the Ethical Demands of Reading Trauma and the Fantastic in Willing Unbelief  Tony M. Vinci 4 Through the Looking-Glass: Child Sexual Abuse from the Inside-Out  Jacqueline Linder 5 Working with Addiction and Trauma: Mental Health Professionals Reflect on Their Use of Spirituality  Peter Bray Part 2 Contemplating Trauma 6 Transformative Shocks: War Trauma in David Rabe’s Sticks and Bones and Sam Shepard’s States of Shock  Asli Tekinay 7 ‘Pinned limb to limb by a ton of rocks’: Annihilation in the Face of Captivity and Torture in Alan Cumyn’s Man of Bone  Danielle Schaub 8 Writing Trauma, Writing Modern: Nadeem Aslam’s The Wasted Vigil and Atiq Rahimi’s The Patience Stone  Gen’ichiro Itakura 9 Body and Trauma in Chuck Palahniuk’s Haunted  Claudio Vescia Zanini 10 ‘I Used To Be Human Once’: Trauma and Reconfigurations of the Body in Chemical Disasters  Elwin Susan John 11 Painting over the Past: Political Palimpsests in Northern Ireland and the Complexities of the ‘Whitewash’ Initiative  Mark Callaghan 12 Transcending Genre: Narrative Strategies for Creating Literary Crime Fiction as a Subset of Trauma Literature  Leanne Dodd Part 3 Engaging Trauma 13 Illness Is a Window: Reframing Leukaemia through Dharma Art  Nicholas Quin Serenati 14 Engaging Trauma Resulting from Sexual Violence through Autoethnography and Photovoice  M. Candace Christensen 15 Creating and Contextualising Trauma-Related Contemporary Choreography  Marie France Forcier 16 Eating Disorders: Traumatic Context and Interventions  Diedra L. Clay Index of Names Indexes of Terms

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Danielle Schaub, Ph.D. (1994), Associate Professor at Oranim Academic College of Education, Israel, and Adjunct Professor at the University of Alberta, Canada, has published a monograph, several essay collections and articles, including What Happened? Re-Presenting Traumas, Uncovering Recoveries (Brill, 2018). Jacqueline Linder, Ph.D. (2014), Director of the Counselling Master Program at the Canadian campus in Edmonton of the City University of Seattle, has published multiple articles on psychological trauma and psychospiritual injury, including ‘Exploring Soul Loss Through Arts-Based Research’ (2015). Kori D. Novak, Ph.D. (2013), specialises in degenerative neuro-cognitive disease, end-of-life care and aging in the U.S. corrections system. She was a post-doctoral fellow in palliative and end-of-life care at the Stanford School of Medicine, is a Researcher with the Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities and a visiting scholar at Suffolk University (England). Stephanie Y. Tam is an independent researcher, writer, and producer. She completed an MSc in Evidence-Based Social Intervention and MSt in World Literatures at the University of Oxford as a Daniel M. Sachs Scholar. Her research interests include trauma theory, narrative therapy, postcolonial and migration studies, and the role of fantasy in memory, which she also explores in her creative work. Claudio Vascia Zanini, Ph.D. (2011), is Professor of Literatures in English at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul and founding member of the research group Estudos do Gótico (CNPq). His research interests include Gothic studies, horror cinema and the interfaces between fiction and psychoanalysis. Besides articles, book chapters, and other co-edited volumes, he is the author of The Orgy is Over: Phantasies, Fake Realities and the Loss of Boundaries in Chuck Palahniuk's Haunted (2013).

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