Tense Past: Cultural Essays in Trauma and Memory

Tense Past: Cultural Essays in Trauma and Memory
ISBN-10
1136668349
ISBN-13
9781136668340
Category
Social Science
Pages
272
Language
English
Published
2016-05-06
Publisher
Routledge
Authors
Michael Lambek, Paul Antze

Description

Tense Past provides a much needed appraisal and contextualization of the upsurge of interest in questions of memory and trauma evident in multiple personality and post-traumatic stress disorders, child abuse, and commemoration of the Holocaust. Contributors examine the historical origins of memory in psychiatric discourse and show its connection to broader developments in Western science and medicine. They address the new links between trauma and memory, and they explore how memory shapes the way traumatic events are put into narrative form. They also consider the social and political contexts in which sufferers speak and remember.

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