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Anthropocene Consciousness, Time Loops, and Anticipatory Collective Trauma in Narratives of Anthropogenic Environmental Disaster
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Poetics Today (2025) 46 (1): 171–195.
Published: 01 March 2025
... catastrophes from occurring. This form, used in Benford's Timescape , the Terminator films, and Star Trek IV , can be seen as hypothetically countering the collective anticipatory environmental trauma that has arisen since the mid-twentieth century, whereas in reality humanity can be said to experience deep...
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The Body as Archive: The Shoah and the Story (Not) Told
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Poetics Today (2017) 38 (4): 667–693.
Published: 01 December 2017
... elides categorical distinctions of first-and second-order autobiographical memory, or memory and story. Thus survivors’ stories seem descendants’ memories. Previous scholarship discusses collective and post-memory but does not explain descendants’ trauma embodiment and how corporeal and psychic traumas...
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The Sound of the Reel in Ted Hughes's Birthday Letters
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Poetics Today (2023) 44 (3): 379–407.
Published: 01 September 2023
... analysis of the poem and its larger collection extends Whitehead's insight to a fuller range of audio, visual, and audiovisual media technologies while, at the same time, considering their bearing on the book's larger media metaphorics and phonotextual dynamics and on the audiovisuality of trauma more...
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Reading the “Lucid Interval”: Race, Trauma, and Literacy in the Poetry of Ed Roberson
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Poetics Today (2000) 21 (1): 187–220.
Published: 01 March 2000
..., and collective memory. Much of Roberson’s
work responds to specific histories of cultural encounter, displacement, and
trauma, while simultaneously reflecting on the experience of coming into
literacy, the derailing of literacy...
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Forgiveness and Resentment in the Aftermath of Mass Atrocity: Jewish Voices in Literature and Film
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Poetics Today (2024) 45 (4): 695–697.
Published: 01 December 2024
... particularly values the role of qualitative elements such as the role of religions, cultures, emotions, and media, in healing damaged relations. Holocaust studies focuses on the Holocaust as a central event in constructing a discourse on violence and collective trauma in shaping many different cultures...
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Poetics Today (2008) 29 (1): 103–128.
Published: 01 March 2008
...’ and by the powerful but
mediated forms of knowledge that have followed from it.” Postmemory
describes the relationship that the generation after those who witnessed
cultural or collective trauma bears to the experiences of those who came
before, experiences that they “remember” only by means...
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Poetics Today (2025) 46 (1): 1–13.
Published: 01 March 2025
... loops of collective memory and neurodiverse perception, as well as the looping forms of generational trauma and mental illness. The essays collected here address all outlined forms of narrative looping: both metaphorical and formal, whether diegetically framed or character framed. We are interested...
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Disappearing the Future: Memory Culture and Dystopia in Elliott Hall's The Rapture
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Poetics Today (2016) 37 (3): 473–494.
Published: 01 September 2016
...: Disappearance, Protest, and Reburial in Argentina,” in Cultures under Siege: Collective Violence and Trauma , edited by Robben Antonius C. G. M. Suárez-Orozco Marcelo M. , 70 – 101 ( Cambridge : Cambridge University Press ). Roth Michael 2005 “Trauma: A Dystopia of the Spirit...
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Intention in Extremity: Reading Dickinson after the Holocaust
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Poetics Today (2005) 26 (2): 175–207.
Published: 01 June 2005
...Benjamin Friedlander Trauma theory posits an unrepresentable excess to experience, but because most studies of trauma deal with experiences that are known and named, at least in general terms (for instance, the Holocaust), there is a tendency to treat the limits of representation as objective...
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History, Memory, and the Genre of Testimony
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Poetics Today (2006) 27 (2): 261–273.
Published: 01 June 2006
...).
Confino, Alon
1997 ‘‘Collective Memory and Cultural History: Problems of Method American Historical
Review 102: 1386–1403.
Felman, Shoshana
2002 The Juridical Unconscious: Trials and Traumas in the Twentieth Century (Cambridge, MA:
Harvard University Press).
Friedländer, Saul
1979 When...
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Memory and Modernity in Democratic Spain: The Difficulty of Coming to Terms with the Spanish Civil War
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Poetics Today (2007) 28 (1): 89–116.
Published: 01 March 2007
... since the late 1990s to create a memory boom, which has resulted in the publication of a large number of testimonies. The essay questions whether trauma theory, which has been so important in Holocaust studies, provides an adequate model for understanding the belated appearance of these memories...
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Testimony without Intimacy
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Poetics Today (2006) 27 (2): 399–423.
Published: 01 June 2006
...,” in Milton: Paradise Lost; A Collection of Critical Essays , edited by Louis L. Martz, 100 -108 (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall). Hartman, Geoffrey, 1996 The Longest Shadow (Bloomington: Indiana University Press). James, Henry 1960 The Ambassadors (New York: Signet). Langer, Lawrence L...
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The Shock of Arrival: Poetry from the Nazi Camps at the End of the Century
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Poetics Today (2000) 21 (1): 151–186.
Published: 01 March 2000
... by Thomas Weyr (Bloomington: Indiana University Press). Friedländer, Saul 1994 “Trauma, Memory, and Transference,” in Holocaust Remembrance: The Shapes of Memory , edited by G. Hartman, 252 -63(Oxford: Blackwell). Gilman, Sander 1991 The Jew's Body (London: Routledge). Grabner, Hasso 1959...
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Archival Memory: Representations of the Holocaust in Oral Testimony
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Poetics Today (2006) 27 (2): 311–330.
Published: 01 June 2006
... the enduring influences of such memory on the lives of the survivors. Unlike the topographic summaries of trauma in large correlational studies or the distant approximations in the laboratory, qualitative analysis of Holocaust testimony discloses what lies underneath—or inside: the phenomenology...
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Notes on Contributors
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Poetics Today (2023) 44 (3): 503–504.
Published: 01 September 2023
... research interests currently combine narratology, world-literary theory, and contemporary Ukrainian fiction. Her previous monograph, We-Narratives: Collective Storytelling in Contemporary Fiction (2020), won the Barbara Perkins and George Perkins Prize for its contribution to the study of narrative...
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Documents, Photography, Postmemory: Alexander Kluge, W. G. Sebald, and the German Family
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Poetics Today (2008) 29 (1): 129–153.
Published: 01 March 2008
... of photographic images; both authors reflect on the relationship between trauma, war, memory, and representation, especially with regard to family histories. Kluge's emotionally flat documentary account of the Allied bombing of his hometown reveals a problematic deadening of personal and familial relations...
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The Poetry of September 11: The Testimonial Imperative
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Poetics Today (2005) 26 (2): 257–279.
Published: 01 June 2005
..., became the primary venue where the narratives and the emotions collected. Its intrinsic democratic character was utilized, and every testimony of emotion or witness was accepted as equally privileged, so a television witness had as much right to feel and express this emotion as an actual witness...
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Poetics Today (2006) 27 (2): 249–260.
Published: 01 June 2006
... of witness accounts
recorded at a considerable temporal remove from the event. In addition to
analyzing a communicative medium, in this case, video—which the Yale
archive employed for oral documentation—the essays assembled here con-
vey something of the complexity of a collective enterprise that marks...
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Unwelcome Narratives: Listening to Suppressed Themes in American Holocaust Testimonies
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Poetics Today (2006) 27 (2): 463–472.
Published: 01 June 2006
... for testimony collections and for
documentary films in America do not contain these unattractive, socially
problematic themes. They adhere, rather, to a formula that begins in
trauma, atrocity, and loss and that ends in healing, hope, and redemp-
tion. It is not as if testimonies that contain lingering grief...
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Poetics Today (2008) 29 (1): 1–29.
Published: 01 March 2008
... of defamiliarization that works on
formal as well as on affective registers, Sebald’s use of images, arising at a
later historical juncture, attempts to refamiliarize the family photographs
of individuals whose trauma lies deep in their past.
The third part of this collection, “The Photograph, a Textual...
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