Languages of Trauma: History, Memory, and Media

Dedication
Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Languages of Trauma • Peter Leese, Julia Barbara Köhne, and Jason Crouthamel
Part One: Words and Images
	1 “A Perfect Hell of a Night which We Can Never Forget”: Narratives of Trauma in the Private Writings of British and Irish Nurses in the First World War • Bridget E. Keown
	2 Religious Language in German Soldiers’ Narratives of Traumatic Violence, 1914–1918 • Jason Crouthamel
	3 Languages of the Wound: Finnish Soldiers’ Bodies as Sites of Shock during the Second World War • Ville Kivimäki
	4 Efim Segal, Shell-Shocked Sergeant: Red Army Veterans and the Expression and Representation of Trauma Memories • Robert Dale
	5 The Falling Man: Resisting and Resistant Visual Media in Art Spiegelman’s In the Shadow of No Towers (2004) • Jennifer Anderson Bliss
Part Two: Music, Theatre, and Visual Arts
	6 Performing Songs and Staging Theatre Performances: Working through the Trauma of the 1965/66 Indonesian Mass Killings • Dyah Pitaloka and Hans Pols
	7 Some Things Are Difficult to Say, Re-membered • Katrina Bugaj
	8 Performing Memory in an Interdependent Body • Emily Mendelsohn
	9 Memory and Trauma: Two Contemporary Art Projects • Maj Hasager
Part Three: Normalizations of Trauma
	10 Between Social Criticism and Epistemological Critique: Critical Theory and the Normalization of Trauma • Ulrich Koch
	11 The New Normal: Trauma as Successfully Failed Communication in Nurse Betty (2000) • Thomas Elsaesser
	12 The Exploitation of Trauma: (Mis-)Representations of Rape Victims in the War Film • Marzena Sokołowska-Paryż
Part Four: Representations in Film
	13 Translating Individual and Collective Trauma through Horror: The Case of George A. Romero’s Martin (1978) • Adam Lowenstein
	14 Aesthetic Displays of Perpetrators in The Act of Killing (2012): Post-atrocity Perpetrator Symptoms and Re-enactments of Violence • Julia Barbara Köhne
	15 Perpetrator Trauma and Current American War Cinema • Raya Morag
Coda: Climate Trauma Reconsidered • E. Ann Kaplan
Contributors
Index