| Description |
x, 262 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Series |
Routledge studies in memory and narrative ; v. 2 |
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Routledge studies in memory and narrative ; v. 2
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| Contents |
Introduction: Trauma and life stories / Selma Leydesdorff, Graham Dawson and Natasha Burchardt / [et al.] -- Pt. 1. Case studies. 1. Trauma signals in life stories / Gadi Benezer. 2. Remembering and forgetting: Guatemalan war widows' forbidden memories / Judith Zur. 3. Interviewing in a culture of violence: moving memories from Windermere to the Cape Flats / Sean Field. 4. Oppression, resistance and imprisonment: a montage of different but similar stories in two countries / Jan Coetzee and Otakar Hulec. 5. The unending war: social myth, individual memory and the Malvinas / Federico Lorenz. 6. Lynching stories: family and community memory in the Mississippi Delta / Kim Lacy Rogers. 7. Containing violence: poisoning and guerilla/civilian resistance in memories of Zimbabwe's liberation war / Joann McGregor. 8. Naming and claiming: the integration of traumatic experience and the reconstruction of self in survivors' stories of sexual abuse / Susan Rose |
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9. Trauma, memory, politics: the Irish Troubles / Graham Dawson -- Pt. 2. Debates and reviews. 10. Reality or nothing! False and repressed memories and autobiography / J. P. Roos. 11. Human disaster, social trauma and community memory / Arthur Hansen. 12. Trauma and the long-term life story / Paul Thompson. 13. Review article: Paul Antze and Michael Lambek (eds), Tense Past: Cultural Essays in Trauma and Memory / Tina Papoulias. 14. Review article: Elaine Showalter, Hystories: Hysterical Epidemics and Modern Culture / Susannah Radstone |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Post-traumatic stress disorder -- Cross-cultural studies.
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Psychic trauma -- Cross-cultural studies.
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Reminiscing -- Therapeutic use -- Cross-cultural studies.
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Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic.
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Cross-Cultural Comparison.
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Memory.
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| Author |
Dawson, Graham, 1956-
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Leydesdorff, Selma.
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Rogers, Kim Lacy.
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| LC no. |
99028901 |
| ISBN |
041520688X |
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