Arts of Healing: Cultural Narratives of Trauma
Arleen Ionescu · Maria Margaroni
Jun 2020 · Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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320
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This book occurs at the intersection of philosophy, critical theory, psychoanalysis and the visual arts. Each chapter looks at art produced in various traumatogenic cultures: detention centres, post-Holocaust film, autobiography and many more.Other chapters look at the Juarez femicides, the production of collective memory, of makeshift memorials, acts of forgiveness and contemporary forms of trauma. The book proposes new ways of 'thinking trauma', foregrounding the possibility of healing and the task that the critical humanities has to play in this healing. Where is its place in an increasingly terror-haunted world, where personal and collective trauma is as much of an everyday occurrence as it is incomprehensible?
What has become known as the 'classical model of trauma' has foregrounded the unrepresentability of the traumatic event. New, revisionist approaches seek to move beyond an aporetic understanding of trauma, investigating both intersubjective and intrasubjective psychic processes of healing. Traumatic memory is not always verbal and 'iconic' forms of communication are part of the arts of healing.
What has become known as the 'classical model of trauma' has foregrounded the unrepresentability of the traumatic event. New, revisionist approaches seek to move beyond an aporetic understanding of trauma, investigating both intersubjective and intrasubjective psychic processes of healing. Traumatic memory is not always verbal and 'iconic' forms of communication are part of the arts of healing.
About the author
Arleen Ionescu is Professor of English Literature and Critical Theory in the Philology Department at Universitatea 'Petrol-Gaze' din Ploiesti, Romania
Maria Margaroni is Associate Professor in Literary Theory and Feminist Thought at the University of Cyprus. She has held Visiting Fellowships at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (University of Edinburgh) and the Centre for Cultural Analysis, Theory and History (University of Leeds). Her publications include: Julia Kristeva: Live Theory (with John Lechte, Continuum, 2004), Metaphoricity and the Politics of Mobility (with Effie Yiannopoulou, Rodopi, 2006), Intimate Transfers (with Effie Yiannopoulou, special issue of the European Journal of English Studies, 2005) and Violence and the Sacred, special issue of Philosophy Today, 2012. The Care of Thought and the Fate of the Soul: On Julia Kristeva) is due to be published by SUNY Press, 2016. A collection of essays co-edited with Apostolos Lampropoulos and Christos Hadjichristos, Textual Layering: Contact, Historicity, Critique, published in 2016 (Lexington Books).
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