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The Unspeakable - Representations of Trauma in Francophone Literature and Art (Hardcover, Unabridged edition)
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The Unspeakable - Representations of Trauma in Francophone Literature and Art (Hardcover, Unabridged edition)
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The Unspeakable: Representations of Trauma in Francophone
Literature and Art is situated at the crossroads of language,
culture and genre; it contends that suffering transcends time,
space and cultural specificity. Even when extreme trauma is
silenced, it often still emerges in surprising and painful ways.
This volume draws together examples from throughout the Francophone
world, including countries such as Algeria, Morocco, Lebanon,
Rwanda, Cameroon, Congo, Cote d'Ivoire, Haiti, New Caledonia,
Quebec and France, and across genres such as autobiography, poetry,
theater, film, fiction and visual art to provide a cohesive
analysis of the representation of trauma. In addition to the
survivors' expression of trauma, the witnesses and receivers are
also taken into account. By gathering studies that explore diverse
bodily and psychological traumas through tropes such as repetition,
silence and working-through, it tackles ethical responsibility and
interrogates how expressive forms evoke a terrible reality through
the use of imagination. The aim of this volume is not to question
if suffering is representable, but rather to examine to what extent
art surpasses its own limitations and goes straight to its essence.
The Unspeakable hopes to provide models for the cultural
translation of trauma, because, when represented and released from
silence and isolation, trauma can give way to the arduous process
of healing.
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