Research Catalog

Title

Shared traumas, silent loss, public and private mourning / edited by Lene Auestad.

Publication

London : Karnac Books Ltd, 2017.

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Additional Authors

Auestad, Lene

Description

xxxi, 197 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Summary

This book aims to question the junctions of the private and the public when it comes to trauma, loss, and the work of mourning -- notions which, it is argued, challenge our very ideas of the individual and the shared. It asks, to paraphrase Adorno, 'What do we mean by "working through the past"?, 'How is a shared work of mourning to be understood?', and 'With what legitimacy do we consider a particular social or cultural practice to be “mourning”?' Rather than aiming to present a diagnosis of the political present, this volume instead takes one step back to pose the question of what mourning might mean and what its social dimension consists in. Contributors reflect on the trauma of the Holocaust, the after-effects of the Vietnam War in the US, the Lebanese war-torn experience, victims of the Pacific War in Taiwan, and the Chilean dictatorship.--Publisher website.

Subject

• Grief > Political aspects
• Grief > Social aspects
• Bereavement > Political aspects
• Bereavement > Social aspects
• Political violence > Psychological aspects
• Collective memory
• Bereavement
• Stress Disorders, Traumatic > psychology
• Violence > psychology
• Politics
• Social Environment

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Chapter one. War games--mourning loss through play / Hannah Zeavin -- Chapter two. Public memory and figures of fragmentation / Lene Auestad -- Chapter three. To mend the world--trauma, mourning, and containment / Jonathan Davidoff -- Chapter four. Holocaust survivor mothers and their daughters--the intergenerational mourning process as a journey in search of the mother / Edna Mor -- Chapter five. Unable to mourn again? Media(ted) reactions to German neo-Nazi terrorism / Steffen Krüger -- Chapter six. Politicising trauma--a post-colonial and psychoanalytic conceptual intervention / Margarita Palacios -- Chapter seven. Ongoing mourning as a way to go beyond endless grief--considerations on the Lebanese experience / Nayla Debs -- Chapter eight. When the "comfort women" speak--shareability and recognition of traumatic memory / Jenyu Peng -- Chapter nine. A relational approach to trauma, memory, mourning, and recognition through Death and the Maiden by Ariel Dorfman / Jean-François Jacques -- Chapter ten. Victory and defeat--from Beveridge to Thatcher without tears / Jane Frances.

ISBN

• 9781780491615
• 1780491611

OCLC

974823742

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library