Trauma and life stories : international perspectives / edited by Kim Lacy Rogers, Selma Leydesdorff, and Graham Dawson.

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TextSeries: Routledge studies in memory and narrative ; 2.Publication details: London ; New York : Routledge, 1999.Description: 1 online resource (x, 262 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9781134623747
1134623747
1134623739
9781134623730
1280330279
9781280330278
9786610330270
6610330271
0203255135
9780203255131

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Trauma and life stories.DDC classification:

616.85/21 21

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RC552.T7 T736 1999eb

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2000 A-954
WM 170

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44.91

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Contents:

Introduction: Trauma and life stories / SELMA LEYDESDORFF, GRAHAM DAWSON, NATASHA BURCHARDT AND T.G. ASHPLANT -- Case studies -- Trauma signals in life stories / GADI BENEZER -- Remembering and forgetting: Guatemalan war widows' forbidden memories / JUDITH ZUR -- Interviewing in a culture of violence: moving memories from Windermere to the Cape Flats / SEAN FIELD -- Oppression, resistance and imprisonment: a montage ofdifferent but similar stories in two countries / JAN COETZEE AND OTAKAR HULEC.

Summary: In this volume leading academics explore the relationship between the experiences of terror and helplessness, the way in which survivors remember and the representation of these memories in the language and form of their life stories.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

In this volume leading academics explore the relationship between the experiences of terror and helplessness, the way in which survivors remember and the representation of these memories in the language and form of their life stories.