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

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London ; New York : Routledge, 1999.
Physical Description
1 online resource (x, 262 pages).
Additional Creators
Rogers, Kim Lacy, Leydesdorff, Selma, and Dawson, Graham, 1956-
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Language Note
English.
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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9781134623747
1134623747
1134623739
9781134623730
1280330279
9781280330278
9786610330270
6610330271
0203255135
9780203255131
9780203064726
0203064720
9780415206884 (hc.)
041520688X (hc.)
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Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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