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... on the extensive paper files queer family class migrants and refugees must produce as part of the application process, the article theorizes these carefully curated documents as archives of intimacy and trauma respectively. These archives of intimacy and trauma are technologies of mobility—not only moving migrants...

... autobiographies since 1999. These autobiographies tend to portray the revolution as an individual and collective trauma colored by a powerful nostalgia for the prerevolutionary era. In this article, I propose that the twinning of private, familial memory with public memory through revolutionary rupture and trauma...

... that the trauma or injury of another is beyond total understanding. The article searches for connection across difference, both sensitive to trauma and suggestive of ways trauma can be opened up, harnessed toward a solidaristic politics. Memory spaces offer such possibility. © 2016 by MARHO: The Radical...

... their representation of the trauma more effective. © 2011 by MARHO: The Radical Historians' Organization, Inc. 2011 Literary Resonances The Depiction of 9/11 in Literature The Role of Images and Intermedial References Sonia Baelo-­Allué The 9/11 terrorist attack on the United States can...

... and domestically, through its narrative of repairing trauma and harm through community care rather than punishment or retribution. This reading shows that Morrison’s rewriting of the 1950s in Home places the contemporary idioms of police and prison abolition and transformative justice in a broader historical...

... future behaviors.8 Political forces constrain knowledge of the past, restructuring events so that “society better remembers.”9 Championing one version of events (in this case, one that silences Magdalene women) has implications for survivors. Trauma experiences are social; recovery...

... on the psychoanalytic account of trauma. In this case, a past trauma, or the past as trauma, intrudes on and overwhelms the present as a belated experience. I suggested that commemoration presupposes a subjective and instrumental relationship to the past. In the traumatic...

...Wulf Kansteiner Dominick LaCapra, Representing the Holocaust: History, Theory, Trauma . Ithaca and London: Comell University Press, 1994. $29.95 (cloth). Copyright © 1995 by MARHO: The Radical Historians' Organization, Inc. 1995 The Holocaust, the Critic...

... | History and Memory in Neoliberal Chile 275 communicates the terrible tragedy of September 11, 1973, the fate of those who par- ticipated in the making of the film and in the making of the revolution, and the prob- lems of history, memory, and trauma. What...

... evidence and documenting violence, often precludes an analysis of the structural historical processes and political conflicts that gave rise to human rights violations. And the imperative to build forgiveness and reconciliation translates individual modes of working through trauma to the national...

... of abduction, rape, and forced marriage now filtering into asylum claims.6 Although migration authorities recognize BH’s extreme violence, asylum anxieties narrated in immigration courts often assert hypothetical future jeop- ardy, not enacted historical trauma.7 By reshaping personal testimonies...

... and the Irish that justified the violent trauma inflicted on an entire island. Map-making, Landscapes, and Memory: A Geography of Colonial and Early Modern Ireland, c. 1530 – 1750 by William J. Smyth tackles these issues from the author’s perspective as a historical geographer. As the title suggests...

.... The conservative mobilization of 1986 was to mark the final break with the eman- cipatory ideas of 1968. The conservative effort to rewrite history is the historiographi- cal equivalent of Bitburg. Both reflect the deeply felt wish to bury the Nazi trauma and return to normalcy. President Reagan’s...

... Afghanistan but also the Middle East, Central Asia, and South Asia more generally, the stakes of which remain high. Trauma in the Diaspora: September 11, 2001, Afghanistan Histories, and Ordinary Experience The first building collapses, live in front of my eyes on TV. Then the second one...

..., despite their high profile in the Cuban insurrection of the 1950s and 1980s defense, women were a relatively minor theme in the Angolan mission. When it comes to memory, Angola now evokes ambivalence or even trauma for many Cubans. In her research with predominately civilian internacionalistas...

... of Zaragoza (Spain), where she primarily teaches U.S. literature. Her current research centers on trauma studies and 9/11 fiction. She has published widely on the genre of blank fiction, the concept of intermediality, and the representation of violence in literature. Her recent publications include Bret...

... widely on Islamic movements and Muslim intellectuals. His current project deals with the conception of trauma and the memory of war among Iranian veterans of the Iran-Iraq war (19 8 0 – 8 8). M. R. Ghanoonparvar is a professor of Persian and comparative literature and of Persian lan- guage...

... all weather, unavoidable. Far more threatening is the “haze of ‘Greatest Generation’ sentimentality,” which leaves Americans of a certain age “a bit less intellectually and morally prepared for the trauma of modern war” — which leaves Americans, in other words, weeping alone in their cars over...

... lectures. All talks were free and open to the public. My favorite Justseeds project, War Is Trauma, was a collaboration between Iraq Veterans Against the War and Justseeds. It started as a street poster project in November 2010. A number of Justseeds artists provided graphics for “Operation...

... institutions, and “legacy” as either gain, that is, how Britain benefited from enslavement, or as trauma for people of African descent. Rejecting monumentality meant rejecting these traditional memorial narratives and focusing instead on connections to the past through the body and the individual, and through...