Overview

Traumatic experiences with an overwhelming life-threatening feel affect numerous people’s lives. Death and disablement through accident, illness, war, family violence, natural and human-induced disaster can be experienced variously at an individual level through to whole communities and nations. Traumatic memories are intrusive and insistent but fragmented and distorted by the power of sensory information frozen in time. This volume examines the ways individuals, families, communities and nations have engaged with representations of traumas and the ethical dimensions embedded in those re-presentations. Contributors also explore the work of recovering from trauma and finding resilience through working with narrative and embodied forms such as dance and breathing. The ubiquity of trauma in human experience means that pathways to recovery differ, emerging from the way each engages with the world. Sharing, and reflecting on, the ways each copes with trauma contributes to its understanding as well as pathways to recovery and new strengths. Contributors are Svetlana Antropova, Peter Bray, Kate Burton, Mark Callaghan, Marie France Forcier, Monica Hinton, Gen’ichiro Itakura, Danielle Schaub, Zeina Tarraf and Paul Vivian.

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Author:   Elspeth McInnes ,  Danielle Schaub
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   113
Weight:   0.375kg
ISBN:  

9789004383197

ISBN 10:   9004383190
Pages:   224
Publication Date:   06 December 2018
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

List of Illustrations Contributors’ Notes Introduction  Elspeth McInnes and Danielle Schaub Part 1: Representing Trauma 1 Reflections on the Wall: Artefacts and Valediction at the Vietnam Veterans’ Memorial  Mark Callaghan 2 The Attack: Doueiry’s Depoliticisation of Trauma in the Transposition from Literature to Film  Zeina Tarraf 3 Re–imagining Atomic Bombing and 9/11: Kamila Shamsie’s Burnt Shadows  Gen’ichiro Itakura 4 Filming Trauma: Bodiless Voice and Voiceless Body in Beckett’s Eh Joe  Svetlana Antropova 5 The Disturbance of Images  Paul Vivian Part 2: Creativity and Trauma Recovery 6 Shaping Personality through Suffering: The Transformative Writing of Pat MacEnulty  Kate Burton 7 What Enables Resilience after Traumatic Childhood Experiences?  Monica Hinton 8 Investigating the Post-Traumatic Lens in the Choreographer’s Work  Marie France Forcier 9 Reading Myself and Worlds: Coping Strategies in the Face of Cumulative Trauma  Danielle Schaub 10 Holotropic Breathwork as a Therapeutic Intervention for Survivors of Trauma: An Autoethnographic Case Study  Peter Bray

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Elspeth McInnes is a sociologist and Senior Lecturer and researcher in the School of Education at the University of South Australia. Her research engages with family violence and child abuse, child abuse recovery and prevention. Danielle Schaub is a poet, short-story writer, photographer, and bibliotherapist as well as an Associate Professor at Oranim Academic College of Education, Israel and an Adjunct Professor at the University of Alberta, Canada. Her current research focuses on representation of trauma in contemporary Canadian fiction and psychoanalytic interpretations of cinematographic works.

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