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Violence and the Cultural Politics of Trauma
Jane Kilby
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Hardback. A study of 'trauma culture' - a new popular culture of traumatic experiences and victim identity. Num Pages: 160 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JFC; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 24. Weight in Grams: 391.
During the late 1970s and 1980s speaking out about the traumatic reality of incest and rape was a rare and politically groundbreaking act. Today it is a ubiquitous feature of popular culture and its political value uncertain. In Violence and the Cultural Politics of Trauma, Jane Kilby explores the complexity and consequences of this shift in giving first-hand testimony by focusing on debates over recovered memory therapy and false memory syndrome, the spectacle of talkshow disclosures, discourses of innocence and complicity as well as the aesthetics and affect of shock. In counterpoint to the frequently cynical readings of personal narrative ... Read more
During the late 1970s and 1980s speaking out about the traumatic reality of incest and rape was a rare and politically groundbreaking act. Today it is a ubiquitous feature of popular culture and its political value uncertain. In Violence and the Cultural Politics of Trauma, Jane Kilby explores the complexity and consequences of this shift in giving first-hand testimony by focusing on debates over recovered memory therapy and false memory syndrome, the spectacle of talkshow disclosures, discourses of innocence and complicity as well as the aesthetics and affect of shock. In counterpoint to the frequently cynical readings of personal narrative ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Number of pages
160
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
Number of Pages
160
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780748618163
SKU
V9780748618163
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About Jane Kilby
Jane Kilby is a Lecturer in the School of English, Sociology, Politics and Contemporary History at the University of Salford.
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