Languages of Trauma – History, Memory, and Media Leese Crouthamel Köhne Hardback

Languages of TraumaHistory, Memory, and Media\nAuthor(s): Peter Leese, Jason Crouthamel, Julia Barbara Khne\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: University of Toronto Press, Canada\nImprint: University of Toronto Press\nISBN-13: 9781487508968, 978-1487508968\nSynopsis\nThis volume traces the distinct cultural languages in which individual and collective forms of trauma are expressed in diverse variations, including oral and written narratives, literature, comic strips, photography, theatre, and cinematic images. The central argument is that traumatic memories are frequently beyond the sphere of medical, legal, or state intervention. To address these different, often intertwined modes of language, the contributors provide a variety of disciplinary approaches to foster innovative debates and provoke new insights.\n\n Prevailing definitions of trauma can best be understood according to the cultural and historical conditions within which they exist. Languages of Trauma explores what this means .