... diaspora migration immigration borders generational trauma ...

... to explore counternarratives and center community-based knowledge; and art as a gathering place for community conversation and healing. diaspora migration immigration borders generational trauma ...

... on the arguments of Viktoria Schmitt-Linsonoff, this Cold War blockbuster is better viewed not so much as a token of American triumphalism but as a covert symptom of American trauma. The nature of this trauma is complex, occasioned by the war itself, the revelation of genocide, the new threat of nuclear...

... of a dystopian present. The flow of time, the sense of Indigenous history and future possibility, is often captured by the language of “generations,” as one reckons with the traumas that are inherited from ancestors, and with the decisions made that will affect everyone’s children, grandchildren, and beyond...

... Chapter 6 returns to chapter 5’s concern for the question of witnessing, but this time by focusing on the perpetrators of violence. Examining two recent Israeli films, Waltz with Bashir (Ari Folman, 2008) and Lebanon (Samuel Maoz, 2009), this chapter explores their ability to generate...

... information technologies—from the multiplication of distribution sites, to the ease with which digital photos can be doctored, to the speed with which “news” gets circulated and then superseded by the next catastrophe—have generated novel forms of uncertainty, even as competition among rival discourses leads...

... Approaching the killing of more than twenty thousand ethnic Haitians and rayanos as remembered in four fictional accounts—the short story “Luis Pie,” published by Dominican exiled writer Juan Bosch (Havana, 1942); the Haitian novel Compère Général Soleil by Jacques Stephen Alexis (Port Au...

...Gender, Trauma, and Memory This chapter analyzes two key female characters in Ann-Marie MacDonald’s epic novel Fall on Your Knees who use experimental, improvised performance to disrupt prevailing power relations that privilege white, male heterosexual identity. Materia’s and Frances’s...

...Beginning Again This essay examines various artistic attempts by Kara Walker, Robert Polidori, Spike Lee, and Jana Napoli to understand the visual trauma engendered by the flooding and desperation that followed in the wake of Hurricane Katrina in 2005, a cataclysm of national and historic...

... Basma Al Sharif. It shows how the films’ investigations of the limits of “documentation” (as an ethical act and as a cinematic genre) generates in turn an alternative visual syntax elaborated via a poetics of opacity and a politics of disappearance. witnessing human rights essay film visual...

... Chapter 2 moves from the mediated and communal space of the disembodied classroom to proffer a close literary analysis of the writing generated in Hulihia VII: Writings from Prison and Beyond: “Home” Edition . As writing subverts the state-sanctioned imposition of a civic death, so do...

... in four fictional accounts—the short story “Luis Pie,” published by Dominican exiled writer Juan Bosch (Havana, 1942); the Haitian novel Compère Général Soleil by Jacques Stephen Alexis (Port Au Prince, 1955); a testimonio , El Masacre se pasa a pie by Freddy Prestol Castillo (Santo Domingo, 1973...

... by the language of “generations,” as one reckons with the traumas that are inherited from ancestors, and with the decisions made that will affect everyone’s children, grandchildren, and beyond. Despite the reproductive gloss of this language, in this current moment of environmental crisis, a queer kind of love...

..., and their desires. All of these elements have been shaped in the aftermath of what is generally labeled the postsocialist era, which includes China’s entry into the World Trade Organization and its subsequent intensive capitalist take-off. The essay examines the imbrication of three related forces in workers’ lives...

..., Occupied City: New Orleans under the Federals, 1862–1865 (Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1965); and, more generally, George C. Rable, Civil Wars: Women and the Crisis of Southern Nationalism (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1991), especially “Duty, Honor, and Frustration: The Dilemmas...

..., Occupied City: New Orleans under the Federals, 1862–1865 (Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1965); and, more generally, George C. Rable, Civil Wars: Women and the Crisis of Southern Nationalism (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1991), especially “Duty, Honor, and Frustration: The Dilemmas...

..., Occupied City: New Orleans under the Federals, 1862–1865 (Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1965); and, more generally, George C. Rable, Civil Wars: Women and the Crisis of Southern Nationalism (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1991), especially “Duty, Honor, and Frustration: The Dilemmas...

..., Occupied City: New Orleans under the Federals, 1862–1865 (Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1965); and, more generally, George C. Rable, Civil Wars: Women and the Crisis of Southern Nationalism (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1991), especially “Duty, Honor, and Frustration: The Dilemmas...

..., Occupied City: New Orleans under the Federals, 1862–1865 (Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1965); and, more generally, George C. Rable, Civil Wars: Women and the Crisis of Southern Nationalism (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1991), especially “Duty, Honor, and Frustration: The Dilemmas...

..., Occupied City: New Orleans under the Federals, 1862–1865 (Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1965); and, more generally, George C. Rable, Civil Wars: Women and the Crisis of Southern Nationalism (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1991), especially “Duty, Honor, and Frustration: The Dilemmas...