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9781403901156
How do we account for experiences of trauma and memory in multicultural and "globalized" societies?World Memoryblends the study of trauma and memory with perspectives from postcolonial theory to explore a range of traumatic personal and socio-historical experience, including: 9/11, the Holocaust, Stolen Generations, Apartheid, racism, sexual abuse, migration, and Diaspora. From diverse disciplinary bases, the writers examine psychoanalytic, artistic, literary, and vernacular accounts of trauma, collectively revealing what happens when languages of memory traverse boundaries of culture, space, and time.Bennett, Jill is the author of 'World Memory Personal Trajectories in Global Time', published 2003 under ISBN 9781403901156 and ISBN 1403901155.
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