Throughout the past century, traumatic experiences have been
re-enacted frequently by evolving media and art forms. Now there is
a significant body of theory across academic disciplines focused on
the representation of cataclysmic European and US historical
events. However, less critical attention has been devoted to the
representation of havoc outside the West, even though depictions of
Third-World disasters saturate contemporary media and art around
the globe.
This book considers traumatic histories internationally in a
broad range of creative arts and visual media representations.
Deploying diverse applications of the conventional theories of
trauma, it examines the theoretical limitations at the same time as
considering alternative methodologies. Interrogating Trauma is
concerned with the examination of the concept of trauma, and how it
is (often unproblematically) used to theorise the cultural
representation of disaster and atrocity. It offers a theorisation
of trauma, in order to reappraise the relationship between cultural
representation and the socio-historical processes which are marked
by violence, conflict and suffering.
This book was published as a special issue of Continuum: Journal
of Media and Cultural Studies.
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