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Gender and Trauma: Interdisciplinary Dialogues
Editor: Fatima Festić
Date Of Publication: Jan 2012
Isbn13: 978-1-4438-3496-4
Isbn: 1-4438-3496-3
This volume presents eight integrated essays that explore the intersection of the scholarly fields of gender and trauma, combining work that can broadly be located in the subject areas of literary studies, the humanities, and the social sciences. The contributors search for a more comprehensive theoretical ground to analyze the overlapping, inter-agency, and also, the lines that separate the issues of gender and trauma, to establish a more political linking of the materiality of the effects of trauma to the performativity of gender, as well as to examine the ways in which the categories of sex, sexual difference and sexual identity figure within such a relationship. Likewise, our discussion is guided by the increasing awareness of the cross-cultural delineation, dynamics, and translatability of these fields – the awareness that facilitates the understanding of the instances of their interference in the rhetoric of a dominant culture and in dominant societal structures. This specific input which refers to structurally quite comparable identity formations or to their prevention, and also to complex terms of symbolic legitimacy and intelligibility, is the attainment of a joined intercultural and interdisciplinary work on some of the key concerns we are confronting today.
Fatima Festić has worked as a Professor, Lecturer and Research Fellow at various universities in USA, Europe, South Africa, and Turkey. She has published more than 40 articles pertaining to literary, psychoanalytic and feminist theory/criticism, semiotics and cultural studies, and the books The Body of the Postmodernist Narrator and Constructions of Victimhood in Contemporary Cultures. She is currently writing a book on cultural semiotics.
“This is a fascinating collection of essays on gender and trauma across history, nations and the disciplines. Violence as both product and process links war, genocide from 16th century South America to 20th century Europe and Asia, mastectomies, slavery, rape, pornography and refugee camps. This is a book that should be used in the interdisciplinary classroom to teach students how violence structures gendered, racial and sexual identities. It illustrates from a number of different angles how memory narratives break the silence around atrocities and create communities where before traumatized individuals had thought they were alone. The reader learns how the telling of an individual story stands in for collectively shared pain and allows mourning to play its role in therapy.”
– Miriam Cooke, Professor, Duke University
Price Uk Gbp: 39.99
Price Us Usd: 59.99
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