Trauma at Home: After 9/11Judith Greenberg The terrorist attacks of September 11 brought the effects of trauma home to millions in America and throughout the world. Initially the attacks created a sense of paralysis and a narrative void. Now we find ourselves struggling as a nation to remember and rebuild. The distinguished writers in Trauma at Home confront September 11 from a variety of personal, cultural, scholarly, and clinical perspectives. Bringing together wide-ranging reflections on understanding, representing, and surviving trauma, the book offers readers an array of analyses of the overwhelming events. Through the lenses of cultural studies, trauma studies, feminism, film and literary criticism, psychoanalytic theory, and through poetic and photographic images, the contributors use their disciplines to help make sense of the incomprehensible. These essays and reflections address loss and examine our changed modes of perception, relations with others, and sense of home. Trauma at Home contains meditations on the personal and cultural aftereffects of trauma and provides analyses of the historical echoes of Hiroshima, the Holocaust, and Vietnam that the attacks evoked. Collectively these essays replace the silence of shock and disbelief with the possibility of dialogue-even as they also recognize the impossibility of providing a single cohesive narrative for the trauma of September 11. Judith Greenberg has served as a visiting assistant professor at Williams College and Dartmouth College. |
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... thought of danger invaded me , until the rumor spread a short time later that the Pentagon and the White House had been bombed . Even as flames issued from the wounded towers , I thought only of how many casualties there might be and in ...
... thought of danger invaded me , until the rumor spread a short time later that the Pentagon and the White House had been bombed . Even as flames issued from the wounded towers , I thought only of how many casualties there might be and in ...
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... thought I would see such a thing . We sat on the bed and watched . I touched Jennifer , lightly , on her back or shoulder . I thought , we're watching this together . She was more affected than I was . All those people , she was saying ...
... thought I would see such a thing . We sat on the bed and watched . I touched Jennifer , lightly , on her back or shoulder . I thought , we're watching this together . She was more affected than I was . All those people , she was saying ...
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... thought about the possibility of each person I knew being the perpetrator of this terrible crime , the act of having the thought changed those people and me . I felt dirty , even evil . I need to dwell on this point , because I have ...
... thought about the possibility of each person I knew being the perpetrator of this terrible crime , the act of having the thought changed those people and me . I felt dirty , even evil . I need to dwell on this point , because I have ...
Contents
The Dead of September II I | 1 |
Between Memory and History II | 15 |
Wounded New York | 21 |
Copyright | |
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