Aftermath: Violence and the Remaking of a SelfA powerful personal narrative of recovery and an illuminating philosophical exploration of trauma |
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... Narratives and the Remaking of the Self,” in Acts of Memory, ed. Mieke Bal, Jonathan Crewe, and Leo Spitzer (Hanover, N.H.: University Press of New England, 1999), 39– 54; “The Uses of Narrative in the Aftermath of Violence,” in On ...
... process of remembering and working through in which speech and affect converge in a trauma narrative. In this book I explore the performative aspect of speech in testimonies of trauma: how saying something about the memory does x.
... narratives that can then be integrated into the survivor's sense of self and view of the world, but it also reintegrates the survivor into a community, reestablishing bonds of trust and faith in others. The challenge of finding language ...
... narratives and, in chapter 5, I examine their role in constructing and changing cultural tropes and political norms. In chapter 6, I explore the tensions among the various functions of narrative, in particular, the tension between ...
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Contents
TWO On the Personal as Philosophical | 23 |
THREE Outliving Oneself | 37 |
FOUR Acts of Memory | 67 |
FIVE The Politics of Forgetting | 85 |
SIX Retellings | 101 |
Afterword | 119 |
Acknowledgments | 125 |
Notes | 129 |
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