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Languages of Trauma explores how, and for what purposes, trauma is expressed in historical sources and visual media.
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Introduction: Languages of Trauma
Peter Leese, Julia Barbara Köhne, and Jason Crouthamel
Part One: Words and Images
1. "A perfect hell of a night which we can never forget": Narratives of Trauma in the Private Writings of British and Irish Nurses in the First World War
Bridget E. Keown
2. Religious Language in German Soldiers’ Narratives of Traumatic Violence, 1914-1918
Jason Crouthamel
3. Languages of the Wound: Finnish Soldiers’ Bodies as Sites of Shock during World War II
Ville Kivimäki
4.
Efim Segal Shell-shocked Sergeant: Red Army Veterans and the Expression and Representation of Trauma Memories
Robert Dale
5. The Falling Man: Resisting and Resistant Visual Media in Art Spiegelman’s
In the Shadow of No TowersJennifer Anderson Bliss
Part Two: Music, Theatre, and Visual Arts
6. Performing Songs and Staging Theatre Performances: Working through the Trauma of the 1965 Indonesian Mass Killings
Dyah Pitaloka and Hans Pols
7. Encounters with
Some Things Are Difficult to Say, Re-Membered
Katrina Bugaj
8. Performing Memory in an Interdependent Body
Emily Mendelsohn
9. Memory and Trauma: Two Contemporary Art Projects
Maj Hasager
Part Three: Normalizations of Trauma
10. Between Social Criticism and Epistemological Critique: Critical Theory and the Normalization of Trauma
Ulrich Koch
11. The New Normal: Trauma as Successfully Failed Communication in
Nurse BettyThomas Elsaesser
12. The Exploitation of Trauma: (Mis-)Representations of Rape Victims in the War Film
Marzena Soköowska-Pary¿
Part Four: Representations in Film
13. Translating Individual and Collective Trauma through Horror: The Case of George A. Romero’s Martin
Adam Lowenstein
14. Aesthetic Displays of Perpetrators in Joshua Oppenheimer’s
The Act of Killing: Post-Atrocity Perpetrator Symptoms, Re-enactments of Violence, and Perpetrator-Victim-Inversions
Julia Barbara Köhne
15. Perpetrator Trauma and Current American War Cinema
Raya Morag
Coda: Climate Trauma Reconsidered
E. Ann Kaplan
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Edited by Peter Leese, Julia Barbara Köhne, and Jason Crouthamel
Riassunto
Languages of Trauma explores how, and for what purposes, trauma is expressed in historical sources and visual media.
