Representing Trauma: Literature, Theory, and Visual Culture

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Representing Trauma will examine a range of artistic and intellectual engagements with traumatic events: from works by writers and visual artists who have borne witness to these events to theoretical explorations of traumas aftermaths. We will focus on extreme experience, ranging from genocide to war, as represented in literary texts, film, and graphic narrative. Discussing current debates within Trauma Studies as a field, we will look at the relationship between trauma and affect, trauma theory and issues of gender and sexuality, memorialization and the politics of nation, and public and private accounts of embodied suffering.