Includes bibliographical references and index.

Front Matter -- Copyright Page -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- Representing Trauma -- Reflections on the Wall: Artefacts and Valediction at the Vietnam Veterans’ Memorial / Mark Callaghan -- The Attack: Doueiry’s Depoliticisation of Trauma in the Transposition from Literature to Film / Zeina Tarraf -- Re-imagining Atomic Bombing and 9/11: Kamila Shamsie’s Burnt Shadows / Gen’ichiro Itakura -- Filming Trauma: Bodiless Voice and Voiceless Body in Beckett’s Eh Joe / Svetlana Antropova -- The Disturbance of Images / Paul Vivian -- Creativity and Trauma Recovery -- Shaping Personality through Suffering: The Transformative Writing of Pat MacEnulty / Kate Burton -- What Enables Resilience after Traumatic Childhood Experiences? / Monica Hinton -- Investigating the Post-Traumatic Lens in the Choreographer’s Work / Marie France Forcier -- Reading Myself and Worlds: Coping Strategies in the Face of Cumulative Trauma / Danielle Schaub -- Holotropic Breathwork as a Therapeutic Intervention for Survivors of Trauma: An Autoethnographic Case Study / Peter Bray.

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Traumatic experiences with an overwhelming life-threatening feel affect numerous people’s lives. Death and disablement through accident, illness, war, family violence, natural and human-induced disaster can be experienced variously at an individual level through to whole communities and nations. Traumatic memories are intrusive and insistent but fragmented and distorted by the power of sensory information frozen in time. This volume examines the ways individuals, families, communities and nations have engaged with representations of traumas and the ethical dimensions embedded in those re-presentations. Contributors also explore the work of recovering from trauma and finding resilience through working with narrative and embodied forms such as dance and breathing. The ubiquity of trauma in human experience means that pathways to recovery differ, emerging from the way each engages with the world. Sharing, and reflecting on, the ways each copes with trauma contributes to its understanding as well as pathways to recovery and new strengths. Contributors are Svetlana Antropova, Peter Bray, Kate Burton, Mark Callaghan, Marie France Forcier, Monica Hinton, Gen’ichiro Itakura, Danielle Schaub, Zeina Tarraf and Paul Vivian.