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Testimony and Trauma

Engaging Common Ground
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This book offers a collection of reflective essays on current testimonial production by researchers and practitioners working in multifaceted fields such as art and film performance, public memorialization, scriptotherapy, and fictional and non-fictional testimony. The inter-disciplinary approach to the question of testimony offers a current account of testimony’s diversity in the twenty-first century as well as its relevance within the fields of art, storytelling, trauma, and activism. The range of topics engage with questions of genre and modes of representation, ethical and political concerns of testimony, and the flaws and limitations of testimonial production giving testament to some of the ethical concerns of our present age. Contributors are Alison Atkinson-Phillips, Olga Bezhanova, Melissa Burchard, Mateusz Chaberski, Candace Couse, Tracy Crowe Morey, Marwa Sayed Hanafy, Rachel Joy, Emma Kelly, Timothy Long, Elizabeth Matheson, Antonio Prado del Santo, Christine Ramsay, Cristina Santos and Adriana Spahr.

Author Biography:

Cristina Santos, Ph.D. (2001, University of Toronto), is an Associate Professor in Communication, Popular Culture and Film at Brock University. She is the author of Unbecoming Female Monsters: Witches, Vampires and Virgins (2016) and co-editor of Virgin Envy: The Cultural (In)significance of the Hymen (2016). Adriana Spahr, Ph.D. (2001, University of Toronto), teaches at Brock University as well as Wilfrid Laurier University. She has published articles on testimonial literature, including as co-author of Madre de Mendoza (2013) and co-editor of Virgin Envy: The Cultural (In)significance of the Hymen (2016). Tracy Crowe Morey, Ph.D. (2007, University of Toronto), teaches Spanish at Ridley College and is a graduate student in Educational Studies at Brock University. She has published articles on women’s testimonial literature and twentieth-century Latin American and Spanish film.
Release date Australia
March 28th, 2019
Audience
  • Professional & Vocational
Contributors
  • Edited by Adriana Spahr
  • Edited by Cristina Santos
  • Edited by Tracy Crowe Morey
Pages
326
ISBN-13
9789004376748
Product ID
28775108

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