{"product_id":"testimony-and-trauma-engaging-common-ground-9789004376748","title":"Testimony and Trauma: Engaging Common Ground","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList 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","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210757136727,"sku":"9789004376748","price":76.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/testimony-and-trauma-engaging-common-ground-9789004376748","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}