Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Illustrations xi
4. Acknowledgments xiii
5. Intro Introduction: Languages of Trauma 1
6. PART ONE. Words and Images
7. 1 “A Perfect Hell of a Night which We Can Never Forget”: Narratives of Trauma in the Private Writings of British and Irish Nurses in the First World War 29
8. 2 Religious Language in German Soldiers’ Narratives of Traumatic Violence, 1914–1918 46
9. 3 Languages of the Wound: Finnish Soldiers’ Bodies as Sites of Shock during the Second World War 70
10. 4 Efim Segal, Shell-Shocked Sergeant: Red Army Veterans and the Expression and Representation of Trauma Memories 97
11. 5 The Falling Man: Resisting and Resistant Visual Media in Art Spiegelman’s In the Shadow of No Towers (2004) 120
12. PART TWO. Music, Theatre, and Visual Arts
13. 6 Performing Songs and Staging Theatre Performances: Working through the Trauma of the 1965/66 Indonesian Mass Killings 141
14. 7 Some Things Are Difficult to Say, Re-membered 160
15. 8 Performing Memory in an Interdependent Body 183
16. 9 Memory and Trauma: Two Contemporary Art Projects 197
17. PART THREE. Normalizations of Trauma
18. 10 Between Social Criticism and Epistemological Critique: Critical Theory and the Normalization of Trauma 213
19. 11 The New Normal: Trauma as Successfully Failed Communication in Nurse Betty (2000) 239
20. 12 The Exploitation of Trauma: (Mis-)Representations of Rape Victims in the War Film 265
21. PART FOUR. Representations in Film
22. 13 Translating Individual and Collective Trauma through Horror: The Case of George A. Romero’s Martin (1978) 293
23. 14 Aesthetic Displays of Perpetrators in The Act of Killing (2012): Post-atrocity Perpetrator Symptoms and Re-enactments of Violence 310
24. 15 Perpetrator Trauma and Current American War Cinema 360
25. Coda: Climate Trauma Reconsidered 384
26. Contributors 397
27. Index 403