...In this chapter, Emily Pierce Cummins employs trauma theory as a framework for understanding the content, form, and effects of Killers of the Dream, elaborating on the literary strategies at work in the autobiographical tome. Cummins argues that Killers itself (its...

..., it is not surprising that Stewart mentions the possibility of her own death so frequently.” ⁷ On the issue of trauma, Linda Martín Alcoff observes, I gain self-determination by embracing my emotions and embodiment rather than seeking to transcend them, even emotions caused by the destructive acts of others...

... of understanding this has to do with acknowledging that comedy, even if subversive (i.e., with Henline’s insights into the utterly social relations that can actually provoke combat trauma), also preserves the status quo. Henline accepts the fact that advances in health care and enhancements in medical equipment...

...This chapter applies a different lens to Art Spiegelman's September 11 comics, one that organizes the role of visual media in Spiegelman's memorialization of personal experience and world-historical trauma. The history of comics is imbued with nostalgia—for simpler times and truths...

...This chapter posits that Art Spiegelman brings together testimony and traumatic affect—the kind of emotion engendered by the intensity of trauma—to ensure that his text is both firmly rooted in personal history and able to elicit a strong emotive response in the reader. The chapter explores...

...In chapter 3, D. Martίnez problematizes the Equator’s haunted trauma through acts of science and colonialism while also creating potential for spiritual and personal recovery through nepantla. Ecuador trauma equator ghosts Anzaldúa Gloria borderlands colonization conocimiento death...

...The Babadook chapter investigates the intersections of possession, trauma, and grief. The character who becomes possessed in the film is Amelia, a single mother with a seemingly unruly son. Amelia is a character haunted by the loss of her husband, who died driving Amelia...

...Tyler Perry is the most prominent media personality to make a career out of representing African American women’s experiences with abuse and trauma. Focusing on affects, Ben Raphael Sher closely investigates Perry’s cinematic representations while simultaneously theorizing Perry’s...

...The introduction examines current and lacking trends within the folkloristic study of disability, healthy, trauma, and stigma while setting up the volume’s place within the emergent scholarly discourse. disability disability studies discipline ethnography fieldwork folkloristics normalcy...

..., and contextual constraints. This volume aims to showcase current ideas and debates, as well as promote the larger study of disability, health, and trauma within folkloristics, and helping bridge the gaps between the folklore discipline and disability studies....

... trauma intersect with American literature, critical race theory, and gender criticism and unpacks what (and how) this Venn conversation contributes to the fields of trauma, race, gender, and reception studies and (African) American literature. Body in Pain The Scarry Caruth Cathy Farrell Kirby Felman...

... may witness dually and communally black and female personhood, culture, trauma, and triumph through the African American literary tradition. Finally, the conclusion theorizes how dual-witnessing can extend out of the individual conversation between speaker-survivor and reader-listener into a larger...

...In this chapter, Christopher Kilgore analyzes venomous and abusive masculinities as drawn-out temporal trauma in some of Gaiman and McKean's darker works, Violent Cases and The Tragical Comedy or Comical Tragedy of Mr. Punch. The chapter goes on to argue...

..., social trauma, and public memory influence the model put forth here of “public disaster,” or the public dimensions of narrating and remembering large-scale disasters. It describes the appeals and challenges of circulating personal narratives, and makes the case that, adapted in a variety of genres, those...

... Church World United Services churches discrimination relocation Place Displaced Trauma Disaster Pinhook The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned. —MAYA ANGELOU , I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 150 At the “Pinhook Day...

... and March are graphic histories that revisit historical trauma, while, paradoxically, translating the tribulations of a people into the triumphal story of an exceptional individual. The chapter shows how Incognegro renovates traumatic black history via comic book conventions...

...Chapter six attempts to answer the questions of whether both comics and trauma can be seen as postmodernist and, by extension, whether trauma comics are a distinctly postmodern enterprise. This chapter is a prolonged discussion of the relationship between postmodernism and modernism, and between...

...This chapter approaches the experimentation of temporality in recent American Sci-Fi TV shows, such as Lost, FlashForward, Fringe, and The Event, in terms of their preoccupation with the topic of psychological trauma. It argues...

... the animal in distinct, yet overlapping sub-genres—humor, trauma, and Künstlerroman. It illustrates how the perdurable bodies of the exaggeratedly drawn and anthropomorphic creature are linked to the terminal fragility of the human. Two of the graphic novels discussed in this chapter...

...This chapter explores how bearing witness challenges public narratives of unity, triumph, and heroism by focusing on the works of Art Spiegelman, Alissa Torres, and Sungyoon Choi and their representations of 9/11. More specifically, it highlights the connections between history, memory, and trauma...