Publisher's Synopsis
During the past one hundred years or so, the depiction of traumatic historical events and experiences has been a recurrent theme in the work of artists and media professionals-including those in literature, theatre, visual art, architecture, cinema, and television-among other forms of cultural expression and social communication.
The essays collected in this book follow a contemporary critical trend in the field of trauma studies that reflects comparatively on artistic and media representations of traumatic histories and experiences from countries around the world. Focusing on a diversity of art and media forms-including memorials, literature, visual and installation art, music, video, film, and journalism-they both apply dominant theories of trauma and explore the former's limitations while bearing in mind other possible methodologies.
Trauma, Media, Art: New Perspectives contributes to a critical trauma studies, a field that reinvigorates itself in the twenty-first century through its constant reassessment of the relationship between theory, representation, and global histories of violence and suffering.
