The Art and Science of Trauma and the Autobiographical
Negotiated Truths
Meg Jensen
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The Art and Science of Trauma and the Autobiographical
Negotiated Truths
Meg Jensen
Ă propos de ce livre
This book examines posttraumatic autobiographicalprojects, elucidating the complex relationship between the 'science of trauma' (and how that idea is understood across various scientificdisciplines), and the rhetoricalstrategiesof fragmentation, dissociation, reticence and repetitive troping widely used the representation of traumatic experience. From autobiographical fictions to prison poems, from witnesstestimonyto autography, and from testimonio to war memorials, otherwise dissimilar projects speak of past suffering through a limited and even predictable discourse in search of healing.Drawing on approaches from literary, human rights and cultural studies that highlight relations between trauma, language, meaning and self-hood, and the latest research on the science of trauma from the fields of clinical, behavioral and evolutionary psychologyand neuroscience, I read such autobiographical projects not as 'symptoms' but as complex interrogative negotiations of trauma and its aftermath: commemorative and performative narratives navigating aesthetic, biological, cultural, linguistic and emotional pressure and inspiration.