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Violence and the cultural politics of trauma
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ISBN: 074865304X 1281252255 9786611252250 0748628835 9780748628834 9781281252258 9780748653041 6611252258 0748618163 9780748618163 Year: 2007 Publisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press,

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During the late 1970's and 1980's speaking out about the traumatic reality of incest and rape was a rare and politically groundbreaking act. Today it is a ubiquitous feature of popular culture and its political value uncertain. In Violence and the Cultural Politics of Trauma, Jane Kilby explores the complexity and consequences of this shift in giving first-hand testimony by focusing on debates over recovered memory therapy and false memory syndrome, the spectacle of talk show disclosures, discourses of innocence and complicity as well as the aesthetics and affect of shock. In counterpoint to the...


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The Future of Memory
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ISBN: 1845458478 9781845458478 1782380817 1845456939 Year: 2010 Publisher: New York Oxford

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Memory studies has become a rapidly growing area of scholarly as well as public interest. This volume brings together world experts to explore the current critical trends in this new academic field. It embraces work on diverse but interconnected phenomena, such as twenty-first century museums, shocking memorials in present-day Rwanda and the firsthand testimony of the victims of genocidal conflicts. The collection engages with pressing 'real world' issues, such as the furor around the recent 9/11 memorial, and what we really mean when we talk about 'trauma'.--

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