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Informationen zum Autor Gillian Whitlock is Professor in English Media Studies and Art History at the University of Queensland. Hespecialises 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. Klappentext Autobiography has had a major role to play in this 'age of trauma'. This title includes essays that turn to diverse contexts that have received little attention: partition narratives in India! Cambodian and Iranian rap! refugee letters from Nauru! graffiti in Tanzania! and the silent spaces of trauma in Chile and Guantanamo. Zusammenfassung This book sets a new agenda for studies in trauma narrative by establishing dialogues between some of the existing and traditional subjects, locations and methodologies of trauma study and other contexts, histories and memories that have remained obscured to date. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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 ...
