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Showing 1 to 20 of 42 for “"Trauma Studies"”.
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Suffering and survival: considering trauma, trauma studies and living on
Referring to the academic phenomenon of 'Trauma Studies', this thesis argues that if it is possible to 'speak about and speak through‘ trauma (Caruth, 1996), such a double operation can only occur through a writing which, paradoxically, touches on what exceeds it. To structure this argument, the …
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Carry it with you : trauma and identity in Heather Raffo's 9 Parts of Desire and Noura.
… her plays focus on representing both trauma and identity. While trauma studies has only more recently been applied to performance, Raffo's corpus is apt for analyses from the lenses of represented historical, cultural, and personal trauma, as well as consideration in light of …
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Boot Camp for the Psyche: Inoculative Nonfiction and Pre-Memory Structures as Preemptive Trauma Mediation in Fiction and Film
… decades into sociology, military science, and trauma studies supplies compelling new ways of rereading the horror genre. In addition to providing an outlet for grief, anxiety, and violence in their various forms, horror media can now be read as a preemptive measure in an effort to mediate the …
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From the Ashes of History: Trauma, National Identity and State-Building in India and Israel
… of power, neglecting the lingering impact of trauma. In recent years, a vibrant (albeit inchoate) literature has developed on trauma’s legacy in international politics, but it has largely focused on trauma’s sociocultural impacts in Western contexts, neglecting how trauma’s material …
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Picturing the unspeakable: Trauma, memory, and visuality in contemporary comics
… explores the intersections of memory and trauma in comics, arguing that the interrelations of the visual and the textual elements of this medium allow for an expanded understanding of how representations of trauma and memory function. This project argues for the centrality of trauma …
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Being and suffering: toward an existentialist understanding of memory, suffering, and violence
… thought and apply it to the fields of memory studies and trauma studies, broadly conceived. The methodology blends those of literary studies and philosophy, given that the subjects of the current investigation themselves blur the lines between literature and philosophical production. This work …
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Recalling trauma: the legacy of slavery and colonialism in contemporary black women’s fiction
… representations of black women’s historical trauma linked to colonialism and slavery. Through comparative readings of contemporary fiction by black women writers from two continents, I explore the intimate links between the historical traumas of colonialism and slavery and the identity of …
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"The Ghost of That Ineluctable Past": Trauma and Memory in John Banville's Frames Trilogy
… novels haunted by the memory of a singular, traumatic event: the senseless murder of an innocent woman at the hands of the Trilogy’s first-person narrator. This thesis project examines the central role that the corresponding themes of trauma and memory play within these three testimonial …
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"This Link between Narrative and Reality": Weighing the Ethics and Implications of Trauma in The Moviegoer
… critical approach utilizing contemporary trauma theory. Rooted in a series of striking correlations between Percy's writing and the major tenets of trauma studies, this reading promotes comprehensive, straightforward engagements with the novel even as it facilitates productive forms of …
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Post Traumatic Story Disorder: The Power of Story Telling and Story Hearing to Heal the Invisible Wounds of War
… visible physical wounds they suffer, soldiers traumatized by war often experience the debilitating effects of what psychiatrist Jonathan Shay calls moral injury and shrinkage of the social and moral horizon. Shay’s book Achilles in Vietnam argues that soldiers have suffered these moral and …
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Increasgin Self-Esteem and Self-Efficacy in Fromerly Incarcerated Adult Women Using Narrative Art Therapy
… by issues of mental health, substance abuse, and trauma. Studies suggest that self-esteem and self-efficacy play a large role in how women approach reentry after release, and that art therapy can play a beneficial role in increasing these two concepts for the population. The study presented here …
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OUR FATHERS, OUR BROTHERS, OURSELVES: ILLUSORY PATTERN PERCEPTION AND THE PROGRESSION OF TRAUMA THEORY
… dissertation argues that depictions of cultural trauma in literature are a natural progression from depictions of individual trauma by tracing the development of trauma studies from its roots in Freudian psychoanalysis to its current position as an interdisciplinary field of study. It …
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An analysis of unconscious generational transmission in psychoanalytic theory and practice from a Lacanian perspective
… It proposes a model of transmission without trauma, specifically a model of the effects produced as a result of generational transmission which can be described as unconscious, but wherein neither these effects nor their cause can be adequately described as ‘traumatic’. The domain of trauma …
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Measuring the functional and clinical effectiveness of a passive dynamic ankle foot orthosis when used to rehabilitate complex limb salvage post lower limb blast trauma
Summary: Studies suggest passive dynamic ankle foot orthoses (PD AFO) are effective at improving gait and patient reported outcomes measures (PROM) in personnel who have undergone limb salvage due to blast trauma. Studies using PD AFOs have included able bodied and personnel with variable clinical …
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Disrupting Memory: Trauma and Fictions of the ‘War on terror’
… centralising 9/11 as an instance of unique trauma and wilfully excluding the historical and ongoing experiences of Afghans and Iraqis under Western—and mainly American—hegemonic violence. I employ recent developments in trauma studies to understand the ways in which dominant frameworks for …
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(In)articulating the specter: queer communicative resistance in the hysterical supernatural
… queer theory, antiracist feminisms, disability studies, and trauma studies. The construction of hysteria becomes an important framework for investigating nuances of patriarchal oppression within intersections of gender, race, sexuality, disability, age, class, communication, agency, and …
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Constellations of suffering: historical trauma in the theatrical adaptation of Greek tragedy
Grounded in the historiography of the field of trauma studies and a theoretical understanding of the role of adaptation within contemporary culture, this dissertation examines how the process of adapting the familiar narratives of ancient Greek tragedy creates opportunities for modern playwrights …
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The Rhetoric of Violence
… take into account. I argue that the language of trauma studies has the ability to evaluate the impact of violent texts on audiences and that Kenneth Burke's Dramatistic Pentad has the ability the examine depictions of violence to uncover explicit and hidden ideologies that affect the presentation …
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Repressions and revisions: the afterlife of slavery in Southern literature
… a hybrid critical methodology from the fields of trauma studies, African American studies, historiography, and psychoanalysis to articulate how texts about the antebellum past enable later Southern authors to imagine present and future race relations in the South. I analyze how the particularities …
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Towards a black poetics: alternative modes of visibility in representations of post-apartheid black trauma
… in the fields of post-colonial criticism and trauma studies. I critically explore how specific poetic techniques employed in the collections of Koleka Putuma (2021), Gabeba Baderoon (2018), and Maneo Mohale (2019) allow for the historical trauma of Black women to be attended to in the …
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