Testimony and Trauma
Subtitle: Engaging Common Ground
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2019
Language: eng
Number of pages: 326
ISBN-13: 9789004376748
Subjects: Literature, philosophy; Traumatism
Description: This book offers a collection of reflective essays on current testimonial production by researchers and practitioners working in multifaceted fields such as art and film performance, public memorialization, scriptotherapy, and fictional and non-fictional testimony. 0The inter-disciplinary approach to the question of testimony offers a current account of testimony's diversity in the twenty-first century as well as its relevance within the fields of art, storytelling, trauma, and activism. The range of topics engage with questions of genre and modes of representation, ethical and political concerns of testimony, and the flaws and limitations of testimonial production giving testament to some of the ethical concerns of our present age.