This collection casts the spotlight on Asia and its place in global studies on trauma to explore the ways in which violence and trauma is (re)enacted, (re)presented, (re)imagined, reconciled and consumed through various mediums in the region.
This collection casts the spotlight on Asia and its place in global studies on trauma to explore the ways in which violence and trauma is (re)enacted, (re)presented, (re)imagined, reconciled and consumed through various mediums in the region.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Yiru Lim is a Senior Lecturer at the College of Interdisciplinary and Experiential Learning at the Singapore University of Social Sciences. Her main research interests include ekphrasis, narrative and the imagination, and stories of illness and pain, and those of vulnerable groups. She has published in the Review of Irish Studies in Europe (RISE) and was co-author of Coal Mining and Gentrification in Japan published in 2019. Kit Ying Lye is currently Senior Lecturer at the Singapore University of Social Sciences. Her dissertation focuses on the use of magical realism in the representation of Cold War violence in Southeast Asian literature. Her research interests are, mainly, the Cold War in Southeast Asia, history and its remembrance, death in Southeast Asian literature and culture, and Southeast Asian Cultural Heritage. She has published works that discuss the use of literature to represent civil wars in Southeast Asia. She is also the principal investigator of the research project on Singapore Chinese Funerary Practices. She is the co-editor of Death and the Afterlife: Multidisciplinary Perspectives from a Global City (Routledge).
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List of Figures and Table List of Contributors Acknowledgments Introduction: Reading Trauma and Violence: Expanding Horizons Yiru Lim and Kit Ying Lye i Part 1 Imagining and 1. The Human Inclination Toward Violence and Where We Stand in the Age of Mass Consumption Michael Kearney 2. Fictional Testimonies: Narrative structures of resistance in White Chrysanthemum and How We Disappeared W. Michelle Wang 3. Fictive Realities: Witnessing and the Imagination in The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida Yiru Lim 4. Representing Anthropocene Trauma: Disaster Narratives of the Bhopal Gas Tragedy in Indian Cinema Sony Jalarajan Raj and Adith K. Suresh 5. The Unbearable Lightness of the Future-Shock-Myth-Traumatized Swallowers: A Reading of the Assassination of Shinzo Abe Setsuko Adachi Part 2 Remembering and Forgetting 6. National Identities, Hybrid Postmemory, and Cultural Remediation in Akira Mizubayashi's Novel Reine de Coeur Priscilla Charrat-Nelson 7. Giving a Voice Back to the Families of Soviet 'Public Enemies' Through Postmemory Graphic Narratives Iana Nikitenko 8. The Telling of Violence, and the Violence of the Telling: Narrative and the Choice to Forget in Tan Twan Eng's The Garden of Evening Mists Claudia J. M. Cornelissen 9. Mass Graves and Topography: Narrating Violence through the Visible Reminders of the Nellie Massacre, 1983 Jabeen Yasmeen 10. Refugee Poetics: Reassembling the Syrian Identity on Digital Media Waed Hasan Part 3 Reclaiming and Telling 11. Beyond the Impossibility of Representation: Aesthetic Politics in Yun Ch'oe's There a Petal Silently Falls Heejung Kang 12. Words Stuck in the Throat: The Paradox of Deep Silence and Narrative Plenty in Postwar Lebanese Fiction Renée Ragin Randall 13. Speaking the Unspeakable in Nora Okja Keller's Comfort Woman Judy Joo-Ae Bae 14. Listening to Lost Voices: Reading Wartime Rape in Vyvyane Loh's Breaking the Tongue Nicole Ong 15. "We Must Find a Way to Do More Than Endure," Silence as Resistance in Charmaine Craig's Miss Burma Kit Ying Lye 16. Tasting Loss Joy Xin Yuan Wang and Hairuo Jin Index
List of Figures and Table List of Contributors Acknowledgments Introduction: Reading Trauma and Violence: Expanding Horizons Yiru Lim and Kit Ying Lye i Part 1 Imagining and 1. The Human Inclination Toward Violence and Where We Stand in the Age of Mass Consumption Michael Kearney 2. Fictional Testimonies: Narrative structures of resistance in White Chrysanthemum and How We Disappeared W. Michelle Wang 3. Fictive Realities: Witnessing and the Imagination in The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida Yiru Lim 4. Representing Anthropocene Trauma: Disaster Narratives of the Bhopal Gas Tragedy in Indian Cinema Sony Jalarajan Raj and Adith K. Suresh 5. The Unbearable Lightness of the Future-Shock-Myth-Traumatized Swallowers: A Reading of the Assassination of Shinzo Abe Setsuko Adachi Part 2 Remembering and Forgetting 6. National Identities, Hybrid Postmemory, and Cultural Remediation in Akira Mizubayashi's Novel Reine de Coeur Priscilla Charrat-Nelson 7. Giving a Voice Back to the Families of Soviet 'Public Enemies' Through Postmemory Graphic Narratives Iana Nikitenko 8. The Telling of Violence, and the Violence of the Telling: Narrative and the Choice to Forget in Tan Twan Eng's The Garden of Evening Mists Claudia J. M. Cornelissen 9. Mass Graves and Topography: Narrating Violence through the Visible Reminders of the Nellie Massacre, 1983 Jabeen Yasmeen 10. Refugee Poetics: Reassembling the Syrian Identity on Digital Media Waed Hasan Part 3 Reclaiming and Telling 11. Beyond the Impossibility of Representation: Aesthetic Politics in Yun Ch'oe's There a Petal Silently Falls Heejung Kang 12. Words Stuck in the Throat: The Paradox of Deep Silence and Narrative Plenty in Postwar Lebanese Fiction Renée Ragin Randall 13. Speaking the Unspeakable in Nora Okja Keller's Comfort Woman Judy Joo-Ae Bae 14. Listening to Lost Voices: Reading Wartime Rape in Vyvyane Loh's Breaking the Tongue Nicole Ong 15. "We Must Find a Way to Do More Than Endure," Silence as Resistance in Charmaine Craig's Miss Burma Kit Ying Lye 16. Tasting Loss Joy Xin Yuan Wang and Hairuo Jin Index
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