The Art and Science of Trauma and the Autobiographical Negotiated Truths By: Meg Jensen Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Print ISBN: 9783030061050, 3030061051 eText ISBN: 9783030061067, 303006106X Copyright year: 2019 Format: EPUB Available from $ 89.99 USD SKU 9783030061067 This book examines posttraumatic autobiographical projects, elucidating the complex relationship between the ‘science of trauma’ (and how that idea is understood across various scientific disciplines), and the rhetorical strategies of fragmentation, dissociation, reticence and repetitive troping widely used the representation of traumatic experience. From autobiographical fictions to prison poems, from witness testimony to autography, and from testimonio to war memorials, otherwise dissimilar projects speak of past suffering through a limited and even predictable discourse in search of healing. Drawing on approaches from literary, human rights and cultural studies that highlight relations between trauma, language, meaning and self-hood, and the latest research on the science of trauma from the fields of clinical, behavioral and evolutionary psychology and neuroscience, I read such autobiographical projects not as ‘symptoms’ but as complex interrogative negotiations of trauma and its aftermath: commemorative and performative narratives navigating aesthetic, biological, cultural, linguistic and emotional pressure and inspiration. Download eBook Free: https://ouo.io/K6jEwY9
