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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Trauma Narratives"”.
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From denotation to detonation : aestheticization, memory and emphathic readings in trauma narratives
My research centers around the representation of traumatic or otherwise extreme human experiences through modes of fictional writing. I am essentially looking into the renderings of unspeakable subject matter that occupies a liminal space in language's functioning. I aim to explore the …
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The Social Construction of Language: Identity, Reality, and Trauma in American Composition Courses
… not focus solely on minoritized communities’ trauma narratives. Chapter one connects the social construction of language and how it is utilized as an institutional tool to enforce systemic oppression and destabilize a student’s reality. Chapter two focuses on the inequity composition courses …
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Representations of Space/Place and their Relationship to Trauma in Contemporary Women’s Writing
… between the fictional representation of female trauma and spatial theory. The trauma narratives reflect issues relevant to traumatised fictional women, as depicted in the following: Possessing the Secret of Joy by Alice Walker, Paradise by Toni Morrison, Lucky by Alice Sebold, The Vanishing Act …
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"That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore": Humor and Trauma in Postcolonial and Black British Texts
… examines the ways in which humor and trauma function in some of the most acclaimed postcolonial and black British novels, films, and television series. Unlike other studies that focus on satire and how humor is used to establish or diminish power or defuse conflict, this study explores …
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Truth commission testimony : relation to psychiatric status and forgiveness among South African survivors of human rights violations
… existing theoretical and empirical literature on trauma narratives and on forgiveness, and guided the way that psychological outcomes were assessed in the current study. Sunivors (n=134) who gave public, private or no testimony to the TRC completed standardised instruments measuring demographic …
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Gendered Film Criticism and “Intolerable Images”: Representation of Female Trauma in Brady Corbet’s <em>Vox Lux</em> (2018)
… Lux</em>, focusing on its portrayal of female trauma and the subsequent gendered division in its critical reception. The film centers on Celeste, a survivor of a school shooting who rises to pop stardom, depicting an eighteen-year narrative that transforms her personal trauma into a public …
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Stress fractures : loss and emotion in the recent Irish cinema
… cinema is related to these films’ status as trauma narratives. The second half of the dissertation looks at these formal strategies - achronological narrative and flashback; ellipsis and descriptive pause; and repetition and circularity - in a number of exemplary Irish films. By taking a new …
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Filmmaking at the borders: Improvisation and (Re)Presenting others
… Rather than focusing on refugee status or trauma narratives, these methods facilitate relational storytelling that explores commonalities between divided communities while acknowledging differences. The resulting film inhabits an ambiguous space between documentary and fiction that resists …
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Trauma-centred identity and autobiographical memory in posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
Posttraumatic stress disorder is a prevalent and disabling disorder that can occur following experience of trauma. Contemporary clinical models of PTSD assert that memories for trauma are poorly elaborated and inadequately integrated into autobiographical memory (AM). Recent work of cognitive …
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Akapapa – The Journey Home
… on the impacts of spiritual abuse and religious trauma on personal identity and professional frameworks. Using autoethnography, poetic inquiry, and thematic analysis, the research investigates how practitioners can foster sustainable practices that prevent burnout, promote ethical safety, and …
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Houses That Break: Representations of Trauma in The Beekeeper of Aleppo by Christy Lefteri
… (2019), with an aim to reveal the many ways that trauma is depicted in the novel. For my theoretical framework, I primarily use narratological methods introduced by Suzanne Keen (2007, 2008, 2015), Cathy Caruth’s work (1996) on literary trauma, and the findings of psychologist Judith Herman (2015) …
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Holding Both: Witness Aid Workers' Experiences Supporting Intimate Partner Violence Survivors in District Attorney Offices
… in particular how stress and vicarious trauma (VT) manifested for them in this unique setting within the criminal legal system, had not yet been examined. This phenomenological study sought to better understand (1) how social workers and advocates in a prosecutor’s office experience …
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Experiences of Head Trauma from Intimate Partner Violence and Help-Seeking
Experiences of Head Trauma from Intimate Partner Violence and Help-Seeking: A Systematic Review Purpose Head trauma often occurs within experiences of intimate partner violence (IPV-HT) and whilst health implications of these phenomena and survivors’ help-seeking have been considered separately, …
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More than Words, More than Wounds: (Re)Writing 'Wounded' Women and Healing Pedagogies
… how women and their personal stories of trauma have been read and represented in literary, feminist, and pedagogical studies, asserting that these authors and their texts should be recognized respectively as wounded healers and healing narratives. By situating my study within links among …