272 Pages
by
Routledge
272 Pages
by
Routledge
262 Pages
by
Routledge
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Traumatic experiences and their consequences are often the core of life stories told by survivors of violence. In Trauma: Life Stories of Survivors leading academics explore the relationship between the experiences of terror and helplessness that have caused trauma, the ways in which survivors remember, and the representation of these memories in the language and form of their life... Read more
1: Case Studies; 1: Trauma Signals in Life Stories; 2: Remembering and Forgetting: Guatemalan war-widows’ forbidden memories; 3: Interviewing in a Culture of Violence: Moving memories from Windermere to the Cape Flats; 4: Oppression, Resistance and Imprisonment: A montage of different but similar stories in two countries; 5: The Unending War: Social myth, individual memory and the Malvinas; 6: Lynching Stories: Family and community memory in the Mississippi Delta; 7: Containing Violence: Poisoning and guerilla/civilian relations in memories of Zimbabwe’s liberation war; 8: Naming and Claiming: The integration of traumatic experience and the reconstruction of self in survivors’ stories of sexual abuse; 9: Trauma, Memory, Politics: The Irish Troubles; 2: Debates and Reviews; 10: Reality or Nothing!: False and repressed memories and autobiography; 11: Human Disaster, Social Trauma and Community Memory; 12: Trauma and the Long-Term Life Story; 13: Review Article; 14: Review Article: Epidemics of our time: trauma or fantasy?
Biography
Selma Leydesdorff
