On trauma and traumatic memoryedited by Bootheina Majoul. - Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, (c)2017. - 1 online resource.

Includes bibliographies and index.

Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I: On Trauma in Film, Fiction and Non-Fiction; 'Refugee in my own Country'; Atiq Rahimi's Syngué Sabour; Personal Wounds and Global Traumas in Doris Lessing's The Wind Blows Away Our Words; On Witnessing and Representation; Part II: On Trauma in Novels and Plays; Blood Upon the Rose; 'She Comes in the Daytime'; On the Road to Traumatic Oblivion; Trauma in Arthur Miller's The Crucible; Part III: On Trauma in Poetry; The Traumatic Silence of Paul Celan; Wartime Trauma; Editor and Contributor Biographies

On Trauma and Traumatic Memory focuses on the role of writing to preserve memories, to excavate traumas and to heal the ever-present scars of the past. The first part of the book focuses on trauma recalled through films, fiction and documentaries. The second chapter is devoted to analysing trauma in fiction, while the third deals with trauma in poetry. The topic of trauma is of interest to scholars across the globe, both students and professors, and is taught in almost all universities. This volume gathers research papers from different universities around the world, including the India, Italy.



9781443874830


Memory disorders.
Episodic memory.
Psychic trauma.
Post-traumatic stress disorder.


Electronic Books.

BF376 / .O587 2017