Suzanne LaLonde

Trauma, Posttraumatic Growth, and World Literature (eBook, PDF)

Metamorphoses and a Literary Arts Praxis

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book is targeted for clinicians, scientists, cultural theorists, and other scholars and students of trauma studies interested in cultivating interdisciplinary understandings of trauma and posttraumatic conditions, especially resistance, resilience, and posttraumatic growth.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000578591
• Artikelnr.: 63553346

Autorenporträt

Suzanne LaLonde holds a Ph.D. in French Language and Literature and has served as an Associate Professor of Cultural Studies at the University of Texas-Rio Grande Valley and serves currently as a Humanities Instructor in the Honors College at Texas Tech University. Her areas of research have centered on French and Francophone Literature, World Literature, Trauma Studies, Psychoanalysis, and Ecocriticism. In her book Paris and Its Revolutionary Ideas (2020), she invites readers to reconsider the concept of revolutions, which take place in minds and hearts, through an exposure to the arts populating the Parisian landscape. Her teaching record and interests center on French Culture, European Art History, Humanities Driven STEM courses, and Medical Humanities classses, including "Narratives of Illness and Reflective Writing" and "World Literature and Global Health".

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Pedagogy
Trauma
and Posttraumatic Growth
Part I: An Evolution of Key Concepts and Terms
Chapter I: Embryonic Concepts of Trauma and Traumatism from the Humanities
Chapter II: The Birth of the Terms Trauma and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
Part II: A Gallery of Trauma Studies
Chapter III: Landscapes of Contemporary Scientific Trauma Theories
Chapter IV: A Portrait of Cultural Trauma Studies
Part III: Treatments and Educations for Trauma Survivors
Chapter V: Clinical Treatments for Posttraumatic Conditions
Chapter VI: Metamorphoses of the Mind and a Literary Arts Praxis
Part IV: Engaging in a Literary Arts Praxis and World Literature
Introduction to Part IV: The Foreign and Familiar of World Literature
Chapter VII: The Trauma of Aging and Reading Adventures with Miguel de Cervantes
Chapter VIII: The Trauma of a Plague and Creative Writing Exercises with Albert Camus
Chapter IX: Childhood Trauma and Imaginative Escapades with Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio
Conclusion: Summing up and Sailing forward