208 Pages
by Routledge

208 Pages
by Routledge

208 Pages
by Routledge

These chapters gathered from two special issues of the journal Life Writing take up a major theme of recent work in the Humanities: Trauma. Autobiography has had a major role to play in this ‘age of trauma’, and these essays turn to diverse contexts that have received little attention to date: partition narratives in India, Cambodian and Iranian rap, refugee letters from Nauru, graffiti in... Read more

1. Trauma Texts: Reading Trauma in the Twenty-First Century  Kate Douglas and Gillian Whitlock  2. A Transnational Hip Hop Nation: praCh, Cambodia, and Memorialising the Killing Fields  Cathy Schlund-Vials  3. Karibu Mwanza: Drawings by Tanzanian Street Children  Marcus Wiencke  4. Testimonio and Telling Women’s Narratives of Genocide, Torture and Political Imprisonment in Post-Suharto Indonesia  Annie Pohlman  5. Fifty Years On: Melancholic (Re)collections and Women’s Voices from the Partition of India  Terri Tomsky  6. ‘I Must Know’: Re-membering Native Women in the CAVNET_IW Community  Jane Haladay  7. Putting Site Back into Trauma Studies: A Study of Five Detention and Torture Centres in Santiago, Chile  Peter Read and Marivic Wyndham  8. Textual Traumata: Letters to Lindy Chamberlain  Deborah Staines  9. Vulnerable Children, Disposable Mothers: Holocaust and Stolen Generations Memoirs of Childhood  Rosanne Kennedy  10. Letters from Nauru  Gillian Whitlock  11. Hostile Witness: Torture Testimony in the War on Terror  Nina Philadelphoff-Puren  12. From Grief to Grievance: Ethics and Politics in the Testimony of Anti-War Mothers  Cynthia G. Franklin and Laura E. Lyons

Biography

Gillian Whitlock is Professor in English Media Studies and Art History at the University of Queensland. He specialises in comparative and postcolonial approaches to life writing.

Kate Douglas is Lecturer in English, Creative Writing and Australian Studies at the Flinders University of South Australia who specialises in life writing, trauma and memory theory.