Wounded: Studies in Literary and Cinematic Trauma

• Main Author: Gail Finney (Ed.) (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2018
• Subjects: Psychology; Dirty War; Holocaust; Latin American Dictatorships; Severe family dysfunction; Trauma; Postmemory
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

We live in an era of traumatic discourse. The wound (trauma is the Greek word for "wound") speaks multiple languages. Often the trauma registered is political-the trauma of war in Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq, and other nations and the concomitant European migrant crisis. Literature and films...