These chapters gathered from two special issues of the journal
Life Writing take up a major theme of recent work in the
Humanities: Trauma. Autobiography has had a major role to play in
this age of trauma, and these essays turn to diverse contexts that
have received little attention to date: partition narratives in
India, Cambodian and Iranian rap, refugee letters from Nauru,
graffiti in Tanzania, and the silent spaces of trauma in Chile and
Guantanamo. The contexts and media of these autobiographical trauma
texts are diverse, yet they are linked by attention to questions of
who gets to speak/write/inscribe autobiographically and how and
where and why, and how can silences in the wake of traumatic
experiences be read. These essays deliberately set out to establish
some new fields for research in trauma studies by reaching out to a
broader global context, into various texts, media and artifacts,
representing diverse histories with specific attention to different
voices, bodies, memories and subjectivities. This collection
addresses the contemporary circuits of trauma story, and the media
and icons and narratives that carry trauma story to political
effect and emotional affect.
This book was previously published as two special issues of Life
Writing.
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