Tag: World War I

Volume 7 Issue 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

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

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Volume 5 Issue 2 Narrating Gender and Trauma

JLTS 5:2

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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