Throughout the past century, traumatic experiences have been re-enacted frequently by evolving media and art forms. Now there is a significant body of theory across academic disciplines focused on the representation of cataclysmic European and US historical events. However, less critical attention has been devoted to the representation of havoc outside the West, even though depictions of Third-World disasters saturate contemporary media and art around the globe.
This book considers traumatic histories internationally in a broad range of creative arts and visual media representations....
Throughout the past century, traumatic experiences have been re-enacted frequently by evolving media and art forms. Now there is a significant body...
In the era of war on terror, the term terror has tended to be applied to its sudden eruptions in the metropolises of the global north. This volume directs its attention to terror's manifestations in other locations and lives. The title Living Through Terror refers both to the pervasiveness of terror in societies where extreme violence and war constitute the everyday processes of life as well as to the experience of surviving terror and living into the future.
The contributions consider terror's effects in those ignored and silenced locations where terror is either naturalised (the...
In the era of war on terror, the term terror has tended to be applied to its sudden eruptions in the metropolises of the global north. This volume ...
