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Trauma Globalization Trauma theories abbreviated Trauma and Representation Trauma and Media Representation (八卦化 doom to boom) Outline Definitions of Trauma Review: trauma and identity First Responses How is trauma related to globalization? Trauma and Modernity Trauma and History Historical Representation Trauma: Definitions and Issues Definitions: a bodily wound 外傷, 損傷) a wound, a breach on the mind 精神創傷; Whosevictims’ surviving witnesses’; all of us because of the split in our psyche, or the im/possibility of to know and understand (a past event, or history as a whole) Trauma: Definitions and Issues (2) Responses 1. Survivor’s first responses of shock, absorption of shock, sense of confusion, fragmentation, dissociation or loss 2. Later responses: Neurotic symptoms (e.g. nightmares) or identity re-construction; acting-out or working-through Trauma: Definitions and Issues (3) Representation: delayed appearance; twofold disjunction 1. Between experience and testimony: of Witness –reliability of memory and memory work. (no “witness”; chap 12 202, or partial experience) “Witness can only be accessible to the extent that it is not fully perceived or experienced as it occurs” (Wolfreys 304). 2. Between representation and understanding: of Reader – an ‘obligation to recognize another’s experience as irreducibly other and irreducible to generalizations” (Wolfreys 304) ? Mediation (film, news, ritual, donations…) Trauma and Identity How and why are the following characters traumatized? How do they understand/respond to their trauma? Do they “get over” their traumatic symptoms? Briony, Cecilia, Robbie In Atonement Naomi from Obasan (grandmother and mother next time) Emmett from In Country Cameron from The Stunt Man We??? The Viewers/Readers’ Perspectives Four main positions in viewing trauma films (Kaplan pp. 9-10) the position of being introduced to trauma in a film which ends with a comforting ‘cure.’ (e.g. disaster films, Vietnam war