Tag: World War I

Issue 7:2

Revisiting the Sites of Trauma: The War Poetry of
Siegfried Sassoon, Edmund Blunden, and Richard Hugo - Michael Sarnowski

Ricoeur’s Theory of Metaphor as Trauma Praxis - Iris J. Gildea

Dystopia, Trauma, and Resignation: A Reading of Perec’s W,
or the Memory of Childhood and Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go - Annabel Herzog

Postmemory’s Graphic Symptom: Disembodied
Voice, Repetition Compulsion, and Working
through Trauma in GB Tran’s Vietnamerica - Jin Lee

Forms of Mediation in Ari Folman’s Waltz with Bashir - Donato Loia

Review
Guy Beiner, Forgetful Remembrance. Social Forgetting
and Vernacular Historiography of a Rebellion in Ulster - Catriona Kennedy

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Issue 5:2 Narrating Gender and Trauma

This special issue stems from the international conference Trauma and Gender in Twentieth-Century European Literature, organized in March 2016 at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow under the aegis of the Centre for the Social History of Health and Healthcare, and with the kind support of the Wellcome Trust.1 The studies included here explore how the axis between trauma and gender intersects in a range of narratives by men and women writers and filmmakers in twentieth-and twenty-first-century Europe. The issue discusses the ill-effects of war as experienced by soldiers but also its long-lasting impact on civilians as manifested in different forms of trauma. In other words, it looks, from the perspective of gender, into the expression of trauma caused either by the historical context (World War I, World War II, Francoism, etc.) or by personal events. In so doing, it is significant that some recurrent themes emerge, such as silence, rape, illness, death, and, indeed, the trauma of gender itself.

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