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Fragments of Trauma and the Social Production of Suffering: Trauma,
History, and Memory offers a kaleidoscope of perspectives that
highlight the problem of traumatic memory. Because trauma fragments
memory, storytelling is impeded by what is unknowable and what is
unspeakable. Each of the contributors tackles the problem of
narrativizing memory that is constructed from fragments that have
been passed along the generations. When trauma is cultural as well
as personal, it becomes even more invisible, as each generation's
attempts at coping push the pain further below the surface.
Consequently, that pain becomes increasingly ineffable, haunting
succeeding generations. In each story the contributors offer, there
emerges the theme of difference, a difference that turns back on
itself and makes an accusation. Themes of knowing and unknowing
show the terrible toll that trauma takes when there is no one with
whom the trauma can be acknowledged and worked through. In the face
of utter lack of recognition, what might be known together becomes
hidden. Our failure to speak to these unaspirated truths becomes a
betrayal of self and also of others. In the case of
intergenerational and cultural trauma, we betray not only our
ancestors but also the future generations to come. In the face of
unacknowledged trauma, this book reveals that we are confronted
with the perennial choice of speaking or becoming complicit in our
silence.
In this ground-breaking book, Judy Atkinson skilfully and
sensitively takes readers into the depths of sadness and despair
and, at the same time, raises us to the heights of celebration and
hope. She presents a disturbing account of the trauma suffered by
Australia's Indigenous people and the resultant geographic and
generational 'trauma trails' spread throughout the Country. Then,
through the use of a culturally appropriate research approach
called Dadirri: Listening to one another, Judy presents and
analyses the stories of a number of Indigenous people. From her
analysis of these 'stories of pain, stories of healing', she is
able to point both Indigenous and Non-Indigenous readers in the
direction of change and healing.
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