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The Trauma Question
By: Roger Luckhurst, Roger Luckhurst
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| Retail Price: | $62.00 |
| Booktopia Price | $55.80 |
ISBN: 9780415402712
Format:
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Published: October 2008
Published: October 2008
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| List of figures | |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| Aetiology | p. 17 |
| The genealogy of a concept | p. 19 |
| Trauma and modernity | p. 20 |
| The law of 'nervous shock' | p. 26 |
| Trauma in psychology 1870-1914 | p. 34 |
| Trauma in the war ecology: Shell shock | p. 49 |
| Trauma and the politics of identity: Vietnam, Holocaust and abuse survivors | p. 59 |
| Cultural symptoms | p. 77 |
| Trauma and narrative knowledge | p. 79 |
| Trauma in narrative fiction | p. 87 |
| Beloved: A paradigmatic trauma fiction | p. 90 |
| Stephen King's trauma Gothic | p. 97 |
| Mainstream fiction and traumatic anachrony | p. 105 |
| W. G. Sebald: The last trawnatophile? | p. 111 |
| My so-called life: The memoir boom | p. 117 |
| Five elements towards the trauma memoir | p. 121 |
| Memoir and the judicious truth | p. 135 |
| Generating autofictions: Philip Roth, Herve Guibert, Kathryn Harrison | p. 137 |
| The intrusive image: Photography and trauma | p. 147 |
| The fine art of trauma | p. 150 |
| Aftermath aesthetics: Christian Boltanski, Gerhard Richter, Tracey Moffatt | p. 154 |
| Beautiful books of atrocity: Sebastiao Salgado, Giles Peress, Luc Delahaye | p. 164 |
| Flashbacks, mosaics and loops: Trauma and narrative cinema | p. 177 |
| A genealogy of the traumatic flashback | p. 179 |
| Three trauma auteurs: Alain Resnais, Atom Egoyan, David Lynch | p. 185 |
| Trauma and 'post-classical' film since 1990 | p. 203 |
| Afterwards | p. 209 |
| Bibliography | p. 215 |
| Legal cases | p. 234 |
| Index | p. 235 |
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