Images of 'wounded mouths' occur frequently in literary and visual artworks artefacts from both the Global South and the Global North and often imply some form of language loss in relation to trauma. There is, however, a decisive difference between language loss as a symptomatic reaction towards a single traumatic event as explained by Western trauma theorists, and language loss as part of an insidious trauma, caused and perpetuated by continuing forms of structural discrimination. This study contrasts literary and visual images from the Global South to the Global North so as to understand…mehr
Images of 'wounded mouths' occur frequently in literary and visual artworks artefacts from both the Global South and the Global North and often imply some form of language loss in relation to trauma. There is, however, a decisive difference between language loss as a symptomatic reaction towards a single traumatic event as explained by Western trauma theorists, and language loss as part of an insidious trauma, caused and perpetuated by continuing forms of structural discrimination. This study contrasts literary and visual images from the Global South to the Global North so as to understand strategies of trauma confrontation within the ambit of what it terms Global South trauma theory.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
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Herausforderungen für die Geisteswissenschaften - Challenges for the Humanities 7
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Tatjana Pavlov-West ist Research Associate der Universität von Pretoria in Südafrika, Dozentin für englischsprachige Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaften, Visual Cultural Studies sowie Lehrkraft für Englisch und Französisch an einer Waldorfschule.
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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONSACKNOWLEDGEMENTSINTRODUCTION: Images of the Wounded MouthConcept and PurposeThe Loss of Language and the Absence of SpeechOutline of ChaptersPART I: TONGUE-TIEDTONGUE-TIED: INTRODUCTIONMethodologyStructureCHAPTER ONE: Vitiated Voices in Jones's SorryWestern TraumaInsidious TraumaAffective TiesCHAPTER TWO: Audible Crying in Miller's REwindWestern Trauma TheoryInsidious TraumaAffective Ties/CriesCHAPTER THREE: Silent Weeping in Searle's MuteWestern TraumaInsidious TraumaAffective TiesTONGUE-TIED: CONCLUSION - De Kok's A Room Full of QuestionsPART II: MUTED MOUTHSMUTED MOUTHS: INTRODUCTIONMethodologyStructureCHAPTER FOUR: Muzzled MouthsBailey's "Still-life with Negro"Aestheticized HorrorThe Returned GazeFraming the VictimLôbo's Iron Mask, White TortureAnastácia's GazeTaking off the MuzzleThe Female Black PantherSpeech as ResistanceConclusion: An Entangled History of Black FemaleEmpowermentCHAPTER FIVE: Sealed LipsBailey's "Survival of the Fittest"EthnographySocial DarwinismContemporary Migration PoliciesAl Assad's "Asylum" in Dialogue with Parr's Close the Concentration CampsThe Refugee Camp as a Zone of IndistinctionHomo Sacer as a ThreatDenial of a Shared HumanityCHAPTER SIX: Suffocating SilenceWaterboarding and the Perpetuation of VictimizationThe South African TRC and the Jeffrey Benzien AmnestyHearingThe Ticking Bomb Threat and the Global War on TerrorThe Loss of HumanityAn Exception to the Exception - Empowering ProtestQuestioning the State of Exception: Yazir HenryWorld Can't Wait: Turning the Threat Inside OutDe Kok's "What kind of man?" and the Loss of HumanityMUTED MOUTHS: CONCLUSIONCONCLUSION: The Cut-Off TongueAPPENDIX"Tongue-Tied" by Ingrid de Kok from Terrestial Things (2002)"The Archbishop chairs the first session" by Ingrid de Kok from Terrestial Things (2002)"The transcriber speaks" by Ingrid de Kok from Terrestial Things (2002)"Sorry Song" (1998; 2007) by Kerry FletcherSouth Africa's national anthem "Nkosi sikelel' iAfrika" (1997)"Beasts of No Nation" (1989) by Fela Kuti"On My Way Out I Passed Over You and the Verrazano Bridge" (1986) by Audre LordeBIBLIOGRAPHYPRIMARY SOURCESLiterary textsArtworksMusicFilms / TV seriesSECONDARY SOURCES
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONSACKNOWLEDGEMENTSINTRODUCTION: Images of the Wounded MouthConcept and PurposeThe Loss of Language and the Absence of SpeechOutline of ChaptersPART I: TONGUE-TIEDTONGUE-TIED: INTRODUCTIONMethodologyStructureCHAPTER ONE: Vitiated Voices in Jones's SorryWestern TraumaInsidious TraumaAffective TiesCHAPTER TWO: Audible Crying in Miller's REwindWestern Trauma TheoryInsidious TraumaAffective Ties/CriesCHAPTER THREE: Silent Weeping in Searle's MuteWestern TraumaInsidious TraumaAffective TiesTONGUE-TIED: CONCLUSION - De Kok's A Room Full of QuestionsPART II: MUTED MOUTHSMUTED MOUTHS: INTRODUCTIONMethodologyStructureCHAPTER FOUR: Muzzled MouthsBailey's "Still-life with Negro"Aestheticized HorrorThe Returned GazeFraming the VictimLôbo's Iron Mask, White TortureAnastácia's GazeTaking off the MuzzleThe Female Black PantherSpeech as ResistanceConclusion: An Entangled History of Black FemaleEmpowermentCHAPTER FIVE: Sealed LipsBailey's "Survival of the Fittest"EthnographySocial DarwinismContemporary Migration PoliciesAl Assad's "Asylum" in Dialogue with Parr's Close the Concentration CampsThe Refugee Camp as a Zone of IndistinctionHomo Sacer as a ThreatDenial of a Shared HumanityCHAPTER SIX: Suffocating SilenceWaterboarding and the Perpetuation of VictimizationThe South African TRC and the Jeffrey Benzien AmnestyHearingThe Ticking Bomb Threat and the Global War on TerrorThe Loss of HumanityAn Exception to the Exception - Empowering ProtestQuestioning the State of Exception: Yazir HenryWorld Can't Wait: Turning the Threat Inside OutDe Kok's "What kind of man?" and the Loss of HumanityMUTED MOUTHS: CONCLUSIONCONCLUSION: The Cut-Off TongueAPPENDIX"Tongue-Tied" by Ingrid de Kok from Terrestial Things (2002)"The Archbishop chairs the first session" by Ingrid de Kok from Terrestial Things (2002)"The transcriber speaks" by Ingrid de Kok from Terrestial Things (2002)"Sorry Song" (1998; 2007) by Kerry FletcherSouth Africa's national anthem "Nkosi sikelel' iAfrika" (1997)"Beasts of No Nation" (1989) by Fela Kuti"On My Way Out I Passed Over You and the Verrazano Bridge" (1986) by Audre LordeBIBLIOGRAPHYPRIMARY SOURCESLiterary textsArtworksMusicFilms / TV seriesSECONDARY SOURCES
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