Trauma culture : the politics of terror and loss in media and literature / E. Ann Kaplan.

It may be said that every trauma is two traumas or ten thousand-depending on the number of people involved. How one experiences and reacts to an event is unique and depends largely on one's direct or indirect positioning, personal psychic history, and individual memories. But equally important...

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Κύριος συγγραφέας: Kaplan, E. Ann
Μορφή: Ηλ. βιβλίο
Γλώσσα:English
Έκδοση: Piscataway : Rutgers University Press, 2005.
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Πίνακας περιεχομένων:
  • Introduction : 9/11 and "disturbing remains"
  • "Why trauma now?" : Freud and trauma studies
  • Memory as testimony in World War II : Freud, Duras, and Kofman
  • Melodrama and trauma : displacement in Hitchcock's Spellbound
  • Vicarious trauma and "empty" empathy : media images of Rwanda and the Iraq War
  • "Translating" trauma in postcolonial contexts : indigeneity on film
  • The ethics of witnessing : Maya Deren and Tracey Moffatt
  • Epilogue : "Wounded New York" : rebuilding and memorials to 9/11.