The Art and Science of Trauma and the Autobiographical Negotiated Truths /

• Main Author: Jensen, Meg (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in Life Writing
• Subjects: Literature, Modern-20th century.; British literature.; America-Literatures.; Self.; Identity (Psychology).; Historiography.; Twentieth-Century Literature.; British and Irish Literature.; North American Literature.; Self and Identity.; Memory Studies.

This book examines posttraumatic autobiographical projects, elucidating the complex relationship between the 'science of trauma' (and how that idea is understood across various scientific disciplines), and the rhetorical strategies of fragmentation, dissociation, reticence and repetitive t...

Table of Contents:

• 1. The Negotiated Truth
• 2. Valuing the Witness: Typologies of Testimony
• 3. Time, Body, Memory: The Staged Moment in Posttraumatic Letters, Journals, Essays and Memoirs
• 4. What it is like: Fiction, Fear and Narratives of Feeling in Posttraumatic Autobiographical Novels
• 5. Speaking In and Speaking Out: Postttraumatic Poetry and Autography
• 6. Annihilation and Integration in Collective Posttraumatic Monuments, Testimonies and Literary Texts
• 7. The Art and Science of Therapeutic Innovation: Hope for PTSD Sufferers Today and Tomorrow.