Traumatic Affect explores the intersection of trauma theory and affect theory, two areas of significant relevance in contemporary literary, cultural and political studies. While both fields continue to independently offer crucial insights into individual and collective experience, an examination of the nexus of trauma and affect that develops new textual analyses and theoretical approaches is timely and necessary. This collection of essays considers circuitries and dynamic relations within, and between, affect and trauma, suggesting previously uncharted ways of thinking about testimony and...
Traumatic Affect explores the intersection of trauma theory and affect theory, two areas of significant relevance in contemporary literary, cultural a...
The first decades of the twenty-first century have been beset by troubling social realities: coalition warfare, global terrorism and financial crisis, climate change, epidemics of family violence, violence toward women, addiction, neo-colonialism, continuing racial and religious conflict. While traumas involving large-scale or historical violence are widely represented in trauma theory, familial trauma is still largely considered a private matter, associated with personal failure. This book contributes to the emerging field of feminist trauma theory by bringing focus to works that contest...
The first decades of the twenty-first century have been beset by troubling social realities: coalition warfare, global terrorism and financial cris...