Images of Traumatic History
| Author | : Daniel F. Schowalter |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 906 |
| Release | : 2001 |
| Genre | : Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) |
| ISBN | : |
Images Of Traumatic History
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Terrorizing Images
| Author | : Charles Ivan Armstrong |
| Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
| Total Pages | : 297 |
| Release | : 2020-09-07 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 3110694034 |
It is broadly accepted that “terrorizing” images are often instrumentalized in periods of conflict to serve political interests. This volume proposes that paying attention to how images of trauma and conflict are described in literary texts, i.e. to the rhetorical practice known as “ekphrasis”, is crucial to our understanding of how such images work. The volume’s contributors discuss verbal images of trauma and terror in literary texts both from a contemporary perspective and as historical artefacts in order to illuminate the many different functions of ekphrasis in literature. The articles in this volume reflect the vast developments in the field of trauma studies since the 1990s, a field that has recently broadened to include genres beyond the memoir and testimony and that lends itself well to new postcolonial, feminist, and multimedia approaches. By expanding the scholarly understanding of how images of trauma are described, interpreted, and acted out in literary texts, this collected volume makes a significant contribution to both trauma and memory studies, as well as more broadly to cultural studies.
Culture and PTSD
| Author | : Devon E. Hinton |
| Publisher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
| Total Pages | : 440 |
| Release | : 2016 |
| Genre | : Medical |
| ISBN | : 0812247140 |
Culture and PTSD examines the applicability of PTSD to cultural contexts beyond Europe and North America and details local responses to trauma and how they vary from PTSD as defined by the American Psychiatric Association.
Memory, Trauma, and History
| Author | : Michael S. Roth |
| Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
| Total Pages | : 338 |
| Release | : 2011-11-22 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0231145683 |
"Memory, trauma, and history is comprosed of essays that fall into five overlapping subject areas: history and memory; psychoanalysis and trauma; postmodernism, scholarship, and cultural politics; photography and representation; and liberal education." -- Introduction.
Languages of Trauma
| Author | : Peter Leese |
| Publisher | : University of Toronto Press |
| Total Pages | : 423 |
| Release | : 2021-03-01 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 148753941X |
This volume traces the distinct cultural languages in which individual and collective forms of trauma are expressed in diverse variations, including oral and written narratives, literature, comic strips, photography, theatre, and cinematic images. The central argument is that traumatic memories are frequently beyond the sphere of medical, legal, or state intervention. To address these different, often intertwined modes of language, the contributors provide a variety of disciplinary approaches to foster innovative debates and provoke new insights. Prevailing definitions of trauma can best be understood according to the cultural and historical conditions within which they exist. Languages of Trauma explores what this means in practice by scrutinizing varied historical moments from the First World War onwards and particular cultural contexts from across Europe, the United States, Asia, and Africa – striving to help decolonize the traditional Western-centred history of trauma, dissolving it into multifaceted transnational histories of trauma cultures.
Image, History and Memory
| Author | : Michał Haake |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 266 |
| Release | : 2022-02-22 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1000541738 |
This book discusses the active relationship among the mechanics of memory, visual practices, and historical narratives. Reflection on memory and its ties with historical narratives cannot be separated from reflection on the visual and the image as its points of reference which function in time. This volume addresses precisely that temporal aspect of the image, without reducing it to a neutral trace of the past, a mnemotechnical support of memory. As a commemorative device, the image fixes, structures, and crystalizes memory, turning the view of the past into myth. It may, however, also stimulate, transform, and update memory, functioning as a matrix of interpretation and understanding the past. The book questions whether the functioning of the visual matrices of memory can be related to a particular historical and geographical scope, that is, to Central and Eastern Europe, and whether it is possible to find their origin and decide if they are just local and regional or perhaps also Western European and universal. It focuses on the artistic reflection on time and history, in the reconstructions of memory due to change of frontiers and political regimes, as well as endeavours to impose some specific political structure on territories which were complex and mixed in terms of national identity, religion and social composition. The volume is ideal for students and scholars of memory studies, history and visual studies.
Photography, Trace, and Trauma
| Author | : Margaret Iversen |
| Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
| Total Pages | : 170 |
| Release | : 2017-02-27 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : 022637033X |
Photography is often associated with the psychic effects of trauma: the automatic nature of the process, wide-open camera lens, and light-sensitive film record chance details unnoticed by the photographer—similar to what happens when a traumatic event bypasses consciousness and lodges deeply in the unconscious mind. Photography, Trace, and Trauma takes a groundbreaking look at photographic art and works in other media that explore this important analogy. Examining photography and film, molds, rubbings, and more, Margaret Iversen considers how these artistic processes can be understood as presenting or simulating a residue, trace, or “index” of a traumatic event. These approaches, which involve close physical contact or the short-circuiting of artistic agency, are favored by artists who wish to convey the disorienting effect and elusive character of trauma. Informing the work of a number of contemporary artists—including Tacita Dean, Jasper Johns, Mary Kelly, Gabriel Orozco, and Gerhard Richter—the concept of the trace is shown to be vital for any account of the aesthetics of trauma; it has left an indelible mark on the history of photography and art as a whole.
Images Performing History
| Author | : Katarzyna Ruchel-Stockmans |
| Publisher | : Leuven University Press |
| Total Pages | : 301 |
| Release | : 2015-09-18 |
| Genre | : Photography |
| ISBN | : 946270029X |
The operative role of the photographic media in making and remaking history History is increasingly made in images, not only because its records are largely photographic but also because our ideas about the past are formed in visual terms. This book offers a discussion of contemporary art practices which question the received notions of historical representations after the pivotal changes of 1989 in Europe. These art practices reveal, in different ways, the operative role of the photographic media in making and remaking history. Not limited to a particular artistic medium, they demonstrate how history is forged through enacting or re-enacting its past forms, while, on the other hand, they indicate how copying and quoting can contribute to creating a new, operative aesthetics. By foregrounding a performative character of images, art is shown to construct an alternative knowledge of the past. Among others the works of the following artists are discussed in this book: Zofia Kulik, Yael Bartana, Harun Farocki and Andrej Ujică, Luc Tuymans, Dierk Schmidt.
Unclaimed Experience
| Author | : Cathy Caruth |
| Publisher | : JHU Press |
| Total Pages | : 208 |
| Release | : 2016-12-15 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1421421658 |
Her afterword serves as a decisive intervention in the ongoing discussions in and about the field.
Inadvertent Images
| Author | : Peter Geimer |
| Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
| Total Pages | : 257 |
| Release | : 2018-03-14 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : 022647187X |
As an artistic medium, photography is uniquely subject to accidents, or disruptions, that can occur in the making of an artwork. Though rarely considered seriously, those accidents can offer fascinating insights about the nature of the medium and how it works. With Inadvertent Images, Peter Geimer explores all kinds of photographic irritation from throughout the history of the medium, as well as accidental images that occur through photo-like means, such as the image of Christ on the Shroud of Turin, brought into high resolution through photography. Geimer’s investigations complement the history of photographic images by cataloging a corresponding history of their symptoms, their precarious visibility, and the disruptions threatened by image noise. Interwoven with the familiar history of photography is a secret history of photographic artifacts, spots, and hazes that historians have typically dismissed as “spurious phenomena,” “parasites,” or “enemies of the photographer.” With such photographs, it is virtually impossible to tell where a “picture” has been disrupted—where the representation ends and the image noise begins. We must, Geimer argues, seek to keep both in sight: the technical making and the necessary unpredictability of what is made, the intentional and the accidental aspects, representation and its potential disruption.
