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English Language Notes (2021) 59 (2): 109–120.
Published: 01 October 2021
... as much by proliferated theories of trauma as by recent upheavals and failures in socioeconomic, geopolitical, and environmental global policies. The transvaluation of trauma from niche clinical discourses into wider contemporary culture has resulted in generalized social traumatophilia. 32...
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English Language Notes (2019) 57 (2): 86–98.
Published: 01 October 2019
...Ryan Topper Abstract This essay intervenes in debates surrounding trauma theory and postcolonial studies, tracing how forms of African animism can lead to a decolonized discourse of trauma. Taking the postcolonial critique of trauma theory’s Eurocentrism as a point of departure, the essay focuses...
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English Language Notes (2019) 57 (2): 1–6.
Published: 01 October 2019
... of Eurocentric models of trauma to a decolonized theory of trauma. Finally, Sue Vice’s essay on dementia and memory loss confronts the question of the bodily dissolution of the Holocaust witness. The genre of testimony has been, for nearly a century, the primary means of bearing witness to the atrocities...
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English Language Notes (2021) 59 (2): 1–8.
Published: 01 October 2021
...Kelly Hurley The essays in this section remind us that to suffer from trauma is not purely the province of the human. Nor is the destruction of natural habitats traumatic only to the human beings who share them, though the concepts and vocabulary that trauma theory provides are of limited...
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English Language Notes (2019) 57 (2): 133–142.
Published: 01 October 2019
..., but as a series of repetitions, each returning to an event that evades naming? What new readings arise? Trauma theory can provide a vocabulary for such a reading as well as a mechanism for recognizing the role of living memory even in narratives that appear to offer abstractions instead. In Cathy Caruth’s much...
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English Language Notes (2021) 59 (2): 35–49.
Published: 01 October 2021
... . Hogle Jerrold . “ History, Trauma, and the Gothic in Contemporary Western Fictions .” In The Gothic World , edited by Byron Glennis and Townshend Dale , 72 – 82 . Abingdon : Routledge , 2014 . Hutcheon Linda . A Poetics of Postmodernism: History, Theory, Fiction . London...
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English Language Notes (2021) 59 (2): 91–108.
Published: 01 October 2021
... directionless anonymity of his distress” seems to traumatize her in turn (81). This distress aligns with classic trauma theory’s repetition of the initial shock through the “repetitious sadness” of the lines her husband keeps repeating and their sense of dissociation, “I am not me but just something that has...
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English Language Notes (2021) 59 (2): 50–65.
Published: 01 October 2021
... seek out situations that repeat their trauma) or actively (where people unconsciously victimize others in the way they were victimized). In Unclaimed Experience Cathy Caruth complicates Freud’s theory and argues for “traumatic experience not only as the enigma of a human agent’s repeated...
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English Language Notes (2021) 59 (2): 9–19.
Published: 01 October 2021
... in part, with Jeffrey C. Alexander’s social theory of cultural trauma, in which Alexander asserts that “trauma is a socially mediated attribution” ( Trauma , 13 ). The work of Caruth and Alexander influences my claims in this essay, as well as the long history of research in trauma studies that relates...
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English Language Notes (2007) 45 (1): 111–121.
Published: 01 March 2007
... separation o f these tw o realms reflects a continuing anxiety that the historical specificity o f the Holocaust w ill be subverted when the events of the past are reconstructed in an im aginative medium. Recent discussions of Holocaust representation in both historiography and in literary theory suggest...
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English Language Notes (2021) 59 (2): 121–135.
Published: 01 October 2021
... capitalism and elaborates an alluring alternative, located in a return to what Derrida describes as the scene of humanity’s second trauma: “the Darwinian.” In doing so, the article traces how the drive for self-annihilation emerges in Marebito not only as a terrifying prospect but also as an occasion...
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English Language Notes (2024) 62 (2): 21–35.
Published: 01 November 2024
...Zayla Crocker Abstract Bernard Rose’s 1992 film, Candyman , and Nia DaCosta’s 2021 remake of it use memorial rituals of naming and summoning that give life to Black memory and trauma. Through the use of Achille Mbembe’s work in Necropolitics , Christina Sharpe’s description of wake work in her book...
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English Language Notes (2008) 46 (2): 175–192.
Published: 01 September 2008
..., marked w ith incidents o f trauma: the m urder o f Spider-Man's uncle, the death of Batman's parents, the destruction o f Superman's home planet, etc.Thus, the m onthly superhero comic requires a distinctly different model than the novel; It is best understood as a complex network o f obsession...
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English Language Notes (2011) 49 (2): 5–10.
Published: 01 September 2011
... or American Idol but which, on this occasion above a ll for we never got to broadcast Pearl Harbor live was able to record an event that was already looking to many observers as if it were prim e tim e disaster fiction, toppling towers and all, except that it's really real after all.The subject of trauma...
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English Language Notes (2021) 59 (2): 81–90.
Published: 01 October 2021
... for the psyche, tastes good. We watch or read ecohorror for the attraction and repulsion its various traumas offer. Horror and the disgusting captivate us, reminding us at the same time of our corporeality and its fragility. Slime is central here. Slime is the horror of boundary transgressions, of indefinability...
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English Language Notes (2019) 57 (2): 151–159.
Published: 01 October 2019
... decolonial trauma studies genocide multidirectional memory Edwidge Danticat Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women at Brown University Donald Trump started his second summer in the White House testing out a new vocabulary for dehumanization, the tenor of which rattled many...
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English Language Notes (2011) 49 (2): 53–71.
Published: 01 September 2011
...Kent Puckett Copyright © 2011 Regents of the University of Colorado 2011 C elia J o h n s o n s Face Kent Puckett 4 f i g u r e 1 : Celia Johnson's face. Brief Encounter and The Theory o f the Novel It's hard to imagine Georg Lukács having much or at least much nice to say about...
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English Language Notes (2008) 46 (1): 61–74.
Published: 01 March 2008
... theories about natural unlearned m em ory. The narrative about Simonides and the relatives o f the victim s is a story about the m om ent o f trauma and grief. It is a story about individual recognition and the potential anonym ity o f w hat is lost in time. It is a narrative about artistic form s o f...
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English Language Notes (2006) 44 (1): 141–143.
Published: 01 March 2006
...," Julia Reinhard Lupton opens the cluster w ith a call to view the "religious tu rn " as a chance "fo r a return to theory, to concepts, concerns and modes o f reading that found worlds and cross con texts, born out o f specific historical situations, traumas and debates, but not reducible to them...
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English Language Notes (2014) 52 (2): 199–201.
Published: 01 September 2014
... epictions o f M odern Male Trauma in Ireland, edited by Catherine Rees (C arysfort, 2015). He is the recipient o f an award from T rinity College Dublin and U niversity College Dublin fo r innovative collaborations across the hum anities and sciences. His interest in the intersections between literature...
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