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 not only haunts the conscious and unconscious mind, but also remains in the body, in each of the senses, ready to resurface whenever something triggers a reliving of the traumatic ... memories of violence and victimization (for example ...
Violence and the Remaking of a Self Susan J. Brison. testimonies of trauma: how saying something about the memory does something to it. The communicative act of bearing witness to traumatic events not only transforms traumatic memories ...
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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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