Languages of Trauma

Peter Leese is an associate professor in the Department of English, Germanic and Romance Studies at the University of Copenhagen.Jason Crouthamel is a professor in the Department of History at Grand Valley State University.Julia Barbara Köhne is FONTE visiting professor in the Faculty of Culture, Social Sciences and Education at Humboldt-University Berlin.

• Introduction: Languages of TraumaPeter Leese, Julia Barbara Köhne, and Jason CrouthamelPart One: Words and Images1. "A perfect hell of a night which we can never forget": Narratives of Trauma in the Private Writings of British and Irish Nurses in the First World War Bridget E. Keown2. Religious Language in German Soldiers’ Narratives of Traumatic Violence, 1914–1918Jason Crouthamel3. Languages of the Wound: Finnish Soldiers’ Bodies as Sites of Shock during World War IIVille Kivimäki4. Efim Segal Shell-shocked Sergeant: Red Army Veterans and the Expression and Representation of Trauma MemoriesRobert Dale5. The Falling Man: Resisting and Resistant Visual Media in Art Spiegelman’s In the Shadow of No TowersJennifer Anderson BlissPart Two: Music, Theatre, and Visual Arts6. Performing Songs and Staging Theatre Performances: Working through the Trauma of the 1965 Indonesian Mass KillingsDyah Pitaloka and Hans Pols7. Encounters with Some Things Are Difficult to Say, Re-MemberedKatrina Bugaj8. Performing Memory in an Interdependent BodyEmily Mendelsohn9. Memory and Trauma: Two Contemporary Art ProjectsMaj HasagerPart Three: Normalizations of Trauma10. Between Social Criticism and Epistemological Critique: Critical Theory and the Normalization of TraumaUlrich Koch11. The New Normal: Trauma as Successfully Failed Communication in Nurse BettyThomas Elsaesser12. The Exploitation of Trauma: (Mis-)Representations of Rape Victims in the War FilmMarzena Sokołowska-ParyżPart Four: Representations in Film13. Translating Individual and Collective Trauma through Horror: The Case of George A. Romero’s MartinAdam Lowenstein14. Aesthetic Displays of Perpetrators in Joshua Oppenheimer’s The Act of Killing: Post-Atrocity Perpetrator Symptoms, Re-enactments of Violence, and Perpetrator-Victim-Inversions Julia Barbara Köhne15. Perpetrator Trauma and Current American War CinemaRaya MoragCoda: Climate Trauma ReconsideredE. Ann Kaplan

"This collection significantly advances trauma studies, a field destined to continue to grow, expand its intellectual purchase and deepen the extent and complexity of its interdisciplinary reach."- Joy Porter, University of Hull (Social History of Medicine)