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Traumatic experiences and their consequences are often the core of life stories told by survivors of violence
List of contents
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?
About the author
Selma Leydesdorff
Summary
Traumatic experiences and their consequences are often the core of life stories told by survivors of violence
