Contents

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