trauma theory

Issue 7.3 - Special Issue "The Global Contemporary and the Ecological" Previous Issues

The Traumatised Shaman: The Woman Writer in the Age of Globalised Trauma

Arya Aryan July 1, 2019 No Comments disease and writing dystopia female writing global Hilary Mantel literature mental health neoliberalism and literature shaman trauma trauma theory writer as shaman writing writing and gender

Arya Aryan on Hilary Mantel, the woman-writer, and trauma

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Issue 1.7 Previous Issues

A New Century of Trauma?

Lewis Ward December 9, 2012 6 Comments Aminatta Forna Austerlitz Cathy Caruth Citizen and Me contemporary American trauma narrative Delia Jarrett-Macauley Dominick LaCapra Eurocentricism incomprehensibility Interrogating Trauma in the Humanities Jean-Michel Ganteau Kali Tal Kantian sublime Kazuo Ishiguro Moses multidirectional memory negative capability pathologization pathology psychiatric responses to trauma Shoshana Felman Sierra Leone civil war Susana Onega The Memory of Love trauma literature trauma theory University of Lincoln W. G. Sebald

According to Shoshana Felman, “The twentieth century can be defined as a century of trauma” (171 n.1). But is the trauma paradigm relevant for…

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