Aftermath: Violence and the Remaking of a SelfA powerful personal narrative of recovery and an illuminating philosophical exploration of trauma |
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... Trauma Narratives and the Remaking of the Self,” in Acts of Memory, ed. Mieke Bal, Jonathan Crewe, and Leo Spitzer ... Traumatic shock. I. Title. HV6558 .B75 2001 362.88—dc21 2001021268 British Library Cataloging-in Publication Data is ...
... trauma. The prevalent lack of empathy with trauma victims, which is reinforced by the cultural repression of memories of violence and victimization (for example, in the United States about slavery, in Germany and Poland and elsewhere ...
... trauma. The result is a record of my thinking about trauma and recovery over the past ten years. The chronology of this period, however, is fractured in the telling. Time may be linear (who knows?) but the aftermath was not. There have ...
... trauma and victimization. In chapters 3 and 4 I discuss the therapeutic function of trauma narratives and, in chapter 5, I examine their role in constructing and changing cultural tropes and political norms. In chapter 6, I explore the ...
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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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