Topography of trauma : fissures, disruptions and transfigurations
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Topography of trauma : fissures, disruptions and transfigurations
(At the interface : probing the boundaries / Robert Fisher, series editor, v. 126)
Brill : Rodopi, c2019
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Other editors: Jacqueline Linder, Kori D. Novak, Stephanie Tam and Claudio Vescia Zanini
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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, Asli Tekinay, Tony M. Vinci and Claudio Zanini.
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 Nachtraglichkeit
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
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