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Book SynopsisThis 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. The 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. Contributors are Alison Atkinson-Phillips, Olga Bezhanova, Melissa Burchard, Mateusz Chaberski, Candace Couse, Tracy Crowe Morey, Marwa Sayed Hanafy, Rachel Joy, Emma Kelly, Timothy Long, Elizabeth Matheson, Antonio Prado del Santo, Christine Ramsay, Cristina Santos and Adriana Spahr.
Table of ContentsList of Illustration Notes on Contributors Introduction: Testimony and Trauma: Engaging Common Ground Tracy Crowe Morey, Cristina Santos, and Adriana Spahr PART 1 Testimony, Time (In)Memorial 1 Material Testimony: Memorials Bearing Witness to Experiences of Loss and Trauma Alison Atkinson-Phillips 2 Spanish Republicans in the Holocaust: Historical Rights and Testimonial Literature Antonio Prado del Santo 3 Writing Spain’s Fraught History: Testimony or Fiction? Olga Bezhanova PART 2 Suffer the Children 4 When the Personal Becomes Collective: a Mother’s Re-Membering of a Disappeared Daughter in Madre de Mendoza Cristina Santos 5 Growing Up in Pain: Children of the Victims of the Argentinean Dictatorship Adriana Spahr 6 Non-Standard Witness: Lessons from Working with/ for Traumatized Children Melissa Burchard PART 3 Scripts and Performances of Testimony 7 Trauma and Healing in Izzeldin Abuelaish’s I Shall Not Hate Marwa Sayed Hanafy 8 The ‘Piercing Breach of a Border’: Irish Cinema as a Mediator of Modern Trauma Emma Kelly 9 Performing Witnesses: Frameworks of Memory in Contemporary Performing Arts Mateusz Chaberski PART 4 Testimonial Embodiments 10 Sick: Negotiating Body Trauma through Visual Art Practice Candace Couse 11 Very Becoming: Transforming Our Settler Selves in Occupied Australia Rachel Joy PART 5 The Curatorial Turn: Objects, Space, and Frames of Testimony 12 Haunted Geographies in Atom Egoyan’s Calendar and Return to the Flock Christine Ramsay 13 Atom Egoyan’s Auroras: a Chorus of Witnesses Timothy Long 14 Immersive Space and the Place of the Witness Elizabeth Matheson Index
