Testimony and Trauma

Engaging Common Ground
Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-90-04-37674-8
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 118, 326 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 231 mm, Gewicht: 476 g

Reihe: At the Interface / Probing the Boundaries

This book offers a collection of reflective essays on current testimonial production by researchers and practitioners working in multifaceted fields such as art and film performance, public memorialization, scriptotherapy, and fictional and non-fictional testimony.

The inter-disciplinary approach to the question of testimony offers a current account of testimony’s diversity in the twenty-first century as well as its relevance within the fields of art, storytelling, trauma, and activism. The range of topics engage with questions of genre and modes of representation, ethical and political concerns of testimony, and the flaws and limitations of testimonial production giving testament to some of the ethical concerns of our present age.

Contributors are Alison Atkinson-Phillips, Olga Bezhanova, Melissa Burchard, Mateusz Chaberski, Candace Couse, Tracy Crowe Morey, Marwa Sayed Hanafy, Rachel Joy, Emma Kelly, Timothy Long, Elizabeth Matheson, Antonio Prado del Santo, Christine Ramsay, Cristina Santos and Adriana Spahr.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Santos, Cristina

Spahr, Adriana

Crowe Morey, Tracy

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmtheorie, Filmanalyse
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustration

Notes on Contributors

Introduction: Testimony and Trauma: Engaging Common Ground

Tracy Crowe Morey, Cristina Santos, and Adriana Spahr

PART 1

Testimony, Time (In)Memorial

1 Material Testimony: Memorials Bearing Witness to Experiences of Loss and Trauma

Alison Atkinson-Phillips

2 Spanish Republicans in the Holocaust: Historical Rights and Testimonial Literature

Antonio Prado del Santo

3 Writing Spain’s Fraught History: Testimony or Fiction?

Olga Bezhanova

PART 2

Suffer the Children

4 When the Personal Becomes Collective: a Mother’s Re-Membering of a Disappeared Daughter in Madre de Mendoza

Cristina Santos

5 Growing Up in Pain: Children of the Victims of the Argentinean Dictatorship

Adriana Spahr

6 Non-Standard Witness: Lessons from Working with/ for Traumatized Children

Melissa Burchard

PART 3

Scripts and Performances of Testimony

7 Trauma and Healing in Izzeldin Abuelaish’s I Shall Not Hate

Marwa Sayed Hanafy

8 The ‘Piercing Breach of a Border’: Irish Cinema as a Mediator of Modern Trauma

Emma Kelly

9 Performing Witnesses: Frameworks of Memory in Contemporary Performing Arts

Mateusz Chaberski

PART 4

Testimonial Embodiments

10 Sick: Negotiating Body Trauma through Visual Art Practice

Candace Couse

11 Very Becoming: Transforming Our Settler Selves in Occupied Australia

Rachel Joy

PART 5

The Curatorial Turn: Objects, Space, and Frames of Testimony

12 Haunted Geographies in Atom Egoyan’s Calendar and Return to the Flock

Christine Ramsay

13 Atom Egoyan’s Auroras: a Chorus of Witnesses

Timothy Long

14 Immersive Space and the Place of the Witness

Elizabeth Matheson

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Cristina Santos, Ph.D. (2001, University of Toronto), is an Associate Professor in Communication, Popular Culture and Film at Brock University. She is the author of Unbecoming Female Monsters: Witches, Vampires and Virgins (2016) and co-editor of Virgin Envy: The Cultural (In)significance of the Hymen (2016).

Adriana Spahr, Ph.D. (2001, University of Toronto), teaches at Brock University as well as Wilfrid Laurier University. She has published articles on testimonial literature, including as co-author of Madre de Mendoza (2013) and co-editor of Virgin Envy: The Cultural (In)significance of the Hymen (2016).

Tracy Crowe Morey, Ph.D. (2007, University of Toronto), teaches Spanish at Ridley College and is a graduate student in Educational Studies at Brock University. She has published articles on women’s testimonial literature and twentieth-century Latin American and Spanish film.