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Showing 1 to 20 of 61 for “"trauma theory"”.
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Within and Without: Psychoanalysis, Trauma Theory, and the Healing Narrative
… I explore the process of writing to heal from trauma. In exploring the rhetorical landscape of trauma writing, I offer a new framework for understanding how those who experience a traumatic event may use the process of writing creatively to engage in a process of healing. I argue that through …
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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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Reframing as Reclamation: Trauma Theory, African Spiritualism, and Ecocriticism in Jesmyn Ward’s Sing, Unburied, Sing
<p>This thesis explores how ecocriticism and trauma theory intersect within Jesmyn Ward’s novel <em>Sing, Unburied, Sing </em>(2017) to tackle the complex act of collective healing. Trauma, and its subset transgenerational trauma, have often been a focal point for critical analysis of other African …
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Steps Toward Healing from the Possessive Other: The Vital Role of Fantastical Literature in Trauma Theory
… experience of individual and generational traumas. This study aims to contribute to the current literary discourse’s understandings of fantastic literature and its subgenres as a tool for healing from trauma through the application of ontological notions of Selfhood and Otherness supplied …
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Healing and Reconciliation: Applying Trauma Theory, Social Identity Theory, and Dialogical Approaches to Interfaith Dialogue among Nigerian Christians and Muslims in Nigeria and the UK
This thesis explores the intersection of trauma theory, social identity theory and dialogical approaches in the context of interfaith dialogue among Nigerian Christian and Muslim groups in Nigeria and the UK. Through ethnographic case studies focusing particularly on the Redeemed Christian Church …
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Remembering the Cultural Trauma Legacies of Slavery: African American Young Adult Perceptions on Racism, Ethnic Identity, and Racial Socialization
… research investigation is to explore cultural trauma theory on African American young adult development. Cultural trauma theory asserts the adverse cross-cultural encounter, North American slavery, reproduces intergenerational psychosocial legacies for contemporary African Americans. …
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WITH SLABS, BONES, AND POLES: DE/CONSTRUCTING NARRATIVES OF HURRICANE KATRINA IN JESMYN WARD’S SALVAGE THE BONES, NATASHA TRETHEWEY’S BEYOND KATRINA, AND SELAH SATERSTROM’S SLAB
This thesis incorporates literary trauma theory, social theory, and cultural trauma theory in an examination of three texts about Hurricane Katrina: Jesmyn Ward’s Salvage the Bones (2011), Natasha Trethewey’s Beyond Katrina (2010), and Selah Saterstrom’s Slab (2015). The texts are arranged by form, …
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Wounds in time: the aesthetic afterlives of the Cultural Revolution
… study crosses disciplines and seeks to grasp the traumatic traces embedded within works of literature, art, and cinema that deal with the Cultural Revolution consciously or unconsciously, in lucidity or encryption. My analysis of the Cultural Revolution as a traumatic wound endeavors to bring the …
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Innovative representations of trauma: trauma in popular culture
This thesis investigates the representation of trauma in late twentieth- and early twenty-first century popular culture. Dominant cultural trauma theory tends to focus on high cultural avant-garde works. However, more recent studies increasingly examine trauma representation in popular culture. …
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Perry Smith and Josef Kavalier: Historical and Literary Victimized Victimizers
<p>In literary trauma theory, victimized victimizers represent an ambiguous area. In my thesis, I show how Perry Smith, a historical figure in Truman Capote's <em>In Cold Blood</em>, and Josef Kavalier, a fictional character in Michael Chabon's <em>The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay</em>, …
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Autobiography as self-defense in the works of Agnes Newton-Keith and Michelle Kennedy
… When examined together through the lens of Trauma Theory, these narratives provide evidence of how similar the survival skills and strategies are between the American female POW's and the American females experiencing downward mobility. This thesis will also show how language uncovers and …
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Autobiography as self-defense in the works of Agnes Newton-Keith and Michelle Kennedy
… When examined together through the lens of Trauma Theory, these narratives provide evidence of how similar the survival skills and strategies are between the American female POW's and the American females experiencing downward mobility. This thesis will also show how language uncovers and …
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The memory of mythmaking: Transgenerational trauma and disability as a collective experience in Afrofuturist storytelling
… the relationship between transgenerational trauma, disability, and myth, particularly within Black speculative fiction, Afrofuturism, and Africanfuturism. Through the lenses of critical race theory, trauma theory, disability studies, and feminist theory, I will closely analyze how myth …
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TOUCHING THE CENTER THAT BURNS: AN EXORCISM
… to explore the relationship between language, traumatic memory, and identity. Through a cross-genre creative style of writing and scholarship, the writer engages with trauma theory, performative language theory, psychoanalysis, and literature in order to illuminate how language, in its various …
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"In a shattered language": a feminist poetics of trauma.
In a Shattered Language": A Feminist Poetics of Trauma, fuses theories of traumatic stress with studies of contemporary poetry and poetics. This project intervenes in debates over the ways trauma is experienced, remembered, and represented by positing poetry as an alternative form of discourse--one …
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The Use of Trauma-Informed Care in Programs Serving Families Experiencing Homelessness
… practitioners understanding and utilization of trauma-informed care (TIC) as well as factors that facilitate or deter its’ implementation within transitional housing programs for families experiencing homelessness. Directed content analysis was used with a theoretical framework including trauma …
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A cross-sectional examination of candidate psychological factors associated with Post-Psychotic PTSD & Research Portfolio
… has developed without reference to contemporary trauma theory. A conceptual framework informed by Ehlers & Clark (2000) is used to determine if PP-PTSD was associated with a sense of serious current threat and negative appraisals of psychosis. Methods: This study recruited 27 individuals with …
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A director's approach to Alice by Heart.
… analysis of the play the theoretical lens of trauma theory as defined by Robert Skloot. As the text for Alice by Heart does not provide adequate dialogue or action, this thesis seeks to explore the ways in which the plot and storyline are highlighted through visual cues such as movement, stage …
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The Immortal Jellyfish and Other Things That Don't Know About Love
… form and language in an attempt to show that trauma can create beauty. This thesis originated with trauma theory and specifically deals with sexual assault trauma, but it also covers topics including international adoption, self-injury, and oceanic life. Jellyfish are a recurring image and …
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Beyond '9/11': counter-narratives of grief in post-9/11 literature
… How do the texts depart from a now paradigmatic ‘trauma’ aesthetic to aestheticise loss in new ways? And, finally, to what extent do the texts examined move beyond ‘9/11’, countering the narrative of ‘9/11’ as a national ‘trauma’ to provide alternative portraits of grief? While there is a plethora …
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