Interdisciplinary Handbook of Trauma and Culture
Interdisciplinary Handbook of Trauma and Culture
Editors: Gurevitz, David, Ataria, Yochai, and Pedaya, Haviva et.al.
Publication Year: 2016
Publisher: Springer Science+Business Media
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ISBN: 978-3-31-929402-5
Category: Health & Medicine - Medicine
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Table of Contents
This lofty volume analyzes a circular cultural relationship: not only how trauma is reflected in cultural processes and products, but also how trauma itself acts as a critical shaper of literature, the visual and performing arts, architecture, and religion and mythmaking.
Table of Contents
- Dedication
- Introduction
- Acknowledgements
- Contributors
- Part I Representations of Trauma
- 1 Literature as Trauma: The Postmodern Option-Franz Kafka and Cormac Mccarthy - David Gurevitz
- 2 Cultural Trauma and the Media - Allen Meek
- 3 Television: A Traumatic Culture - Dan Arav
- 4 Popular Trauma Culture: The Pain of Others Between Holocaust Tropes and Kitsch-Sentimental Melodrama - Anne Rothe
- 5 The Trauma of Modernism: Between Existential Indeterminacy and Allegoresis - Dennis Sobolev
- 6 Before Recognition: On the Aesthetics of Aftermath - Lisa Saltzman
- 7 From Hiroshima to Fukushima: Comics and Animation as Subversive Agents of Memory in Japan - Ory Bartal
- 8 Performative Recollection: Koizumi Meiro Representations of Kamikaze Pilots and the Trauma of the Asia-Pacific War in Japan - Ayelet Zohar
- 9 Architecture and Trauma - Teresa Stoppani
- 10 Art as the Transport-Station of Trauma - Bracha Lichtenberg Ettinger
- Part II Theory of Trauma
- 11 The Trauma of Philosophy - Frank Seeburger
- 12 Irresponsible Nonsense: An Epistemological and Ethical Critique of Postmodern Trauma Theory - Anne Rothe
- 13 The Death of the Witness in the Era of Testimony: Primo Levi and Georges Perec - Yochai Ataria
- 14 Walking, Walking Out, and Walking Through: Transitional Space and Traumatic Time - Haviva Pedaya
- 15 Trauma and Monotheism: Sigmund Freud's Moses and Monotheism and the Possibility of Writing a Traumatic History of Religion - Koji Yamashiro
- 16 The Crisis of Manhood - Yochai Ataria
- 17 Laius Complex and Shocks of Maternality: With Franz Kafka and Sylvia Plath - Bracha Lichtenberg Ettinger
- 18 Fear, Trauma, and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: Clinical, Neurobiological, and Cultural Perspectives - Mikael Rubin, Maya Neria and Yuval Neria
- Part III Case Studies of Collective Trauma
- 19 Some Reflections on Transmitting the Memory of the Holocaust and its Implications, Particularly in Israel - Saul Friedländer
- 20 Placing Collective Trauma Within Its Social Context: The Case of 9/11 Attacks - Emily Joyner, Katharine Reiner van der Hoorn, Ari Platt, Mikael Rubin, Erel Shvil and Yuval Neria
- 21 Masculinity, Spirituality, and Male Wartime Sexual Trauma - R. Ruard Ganzevoort and Srdjan Sremac
- 22 Killing the Killer: Rampage and Gun Rights as a Syndrome - Kirby Farrell
- 23 Loss, Traumatic Bereavement, and Mourning Culture: The Israel Example - Eliezer Witztum, Ruth Malkinson and Simon Shimshon Rubin
- 24 Fear and Silence in Burma and Indonesia: Comparing Two National Tragedies and Two Individual Outcomes of Trauma - Robert Lemelson and Seinenu M. Thein-Lemelson
- Conclusion: Trauma and Culture: How Trauma Can Shape the Human Mind - Yuval Neria and Yochai Ataria