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6. Bahareh: Singing without Words in an Iranian Prison Camp

  • Shahla Talebi
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Critical Trauma Studies
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© 2020 New York University Press, New York, USA

© 2020 New York University Press, New York, USA

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Contents vii
  3. Acknowledgments ix
  4. 1. Within Trauma: An Introduction 1
  5. I. Politics
  6. 2. Trauma Is as Trauma Does: The Politics of Affect in Catastrophic Times 19
  7. 3. “She Was Just a Chechen”: The Female Suicide Bomber as a Site of Collective Suffering in Wartime Chechen Republic 37
  8. 4. Naming Sexual Trauma: On the Political Necessity of Nuance in Rape and Sex Offender Discourses 61
  9. 5. Conceptualizing Forgiveness in the Face of Historical Trauma 78
  10. II. Poetics
  11. 6. Bahareh: Singing without Words in an Iranian Prison Camp 101
  12. 7. Voices of Silence: On Speaking from within the Void (A Response to Shahla Talebi) 111
  13. 8. Future’s Past: A Conversation about the Holocaust with Gabriele M. Schwab 122
  14. 9. “No Other Tale to Tell”: Trauma and Acts of Forgetting in The Road 135
  15. 10. Body Animations (or, Lullaby for Fallujah): A Performance 157
  16. III. Praxis
  17. 11. First Responders: A Pedagogy for Writing and Reading Trauma 179
  18. 12. Answering the Call: Crisis Intervention and Rape Survivor Advocacy as Witnessing Trauma 205
  19. 13. Documenting Disaster: Hurricane Katrina and One Family’s Saga 227
  20. 14. A Cure for Bitterness 244
  21. Bibliography 257
  22. About the Contributors 281
  23. Index 287
https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9781479896561.003.0006

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Contents vii
  3. Acknowledgments ix
  4. 1. Within Trauma: An Introduction 1
  5. I. Politics
  6. 2. Trauma Is as Trauma Does: The Politics of Affect in Catastrophic Times 19
  7. 3. “She Was Just a Chechen”: The Female Suicide Bomber as a Site of Collective Suffering in Wartime Chechen Republic 37
  8. 4. Naming Sexual Trauma: On the Political Necessity of Nuance in Rape and Sex Offender Discourses 61
  9. 5. Conceptualizing Forgiveness in the Face of Historical Trauma 78
  10. II. Poetics
  11. 6. Bahareh: Singing without Words in an Iranian Prison Camp 101
  12. 7. Voices of Silence: On Speaking from within the Void (A Response to Shahla Talebi) 111
  13. 8. Future’s Past: A Conversation about the Holocaust with Gabriele M. Schwab 122
  14. 9. “No Other Tale to Tell”: Trauma and Acts of Forgetting in The Road 135
  15. 10. Body Animations (or, Lullaby for Fallujah): A Performance 157
  16. III. Praxis
  17. 11. First Responders: A Pedagogy for Writing and Reading Trauma 179
  18. 12. Answering the Call: Crisis Intervention and Rape Survivor Advocacy as Witnessing Trauma 205
  19. 13. Documenting Disaster: Hurricane Katrina and One Family’s Saga 227
  20. 14. A Cure for Bitterness 244
  21. Bibliography 257
  22. About the Contributors 281
  23. Index 287
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