Post-traumatic culture : injury and interpretation in the nineties

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Post-traumatic culture : injury and interpretation in the nineties

Kirby Farrell

Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998

  • : hard
  • : pbk

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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The author argues that the concept of trauma has shaped some of the central narratives of the 1990s - from the war stories of Vietnam veterans to the video farewells of Heaven's Gate cult members. He explores the uses of trauma as both enabling fiction and explanatory tool during times of cultural change. Farrell's investigation begins in late-Victorian England, when physicians invented the clinical concept of "traumatic neurosis" for an era that routinely categorized modern life as sick, degenerate and stressful. He sees similar developments at the end of the 20th century as the Vietnam war and feminism returned the concept to prominence as "post-traumatic stress syndrome". Seeking to understand the psychological dislocation associated with these two periods, Farrell analyzes conflicts produced by dramatic social and economic changes and suddenly expanded horizons. He locates parallels between the cultural fantasies of the 1890s in novels and stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, Rider Haggard, H.G. Wells, Bram Stoker and Oscar Wilde, and novels and films of the 1990s that explore such issues as child sexual abuse, domestic violence, unemployment, racism and apocalyptic rage.

目次

Preface Acknowledgements Introduction: Trauma as Interpretation of Injury Part I: The Sorrows of the Gay Nineties Chapter 1. Traumatic Heroism Chapter 2. Empty Treasure: Sherlock Holmes in Shock Chapter 3. Post-Traumatic Mourning: Rider Haggard in the Underworld Chapter 4. Traumatic Prophecy: H.G.Wells at the End of Time Chapter 5. Post-Traumatic Style: Oscar Wilde in Prison Part II: Trauma as Story in the 1990s Chapter 6. Thinking Through Others: Prosthetic Fantasy and Trauma Chapter 7. Abuse as a Prosthetic System Chapter 8. Traumatic Triumph in a Black Childhood Chapter 9. Traumatic Economies in Schindler's List Chapter 10. Traumatic Romance / Romantic Trauma Chapter 11. Berserk in Babylon Chapter 12. Amok at the Apocalypse Epilogue Notes Index

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