Reading Violence and Trauma in Asia and the World

Yiru Lim is a Senior Lecturer at the College of Interdisciplinary and Experiential Learning at the Singapore University of Social Sciences. Her main research interests include ekphrasis, narrative and the imagination, and stories of illness and pain, and those of vulnerable groups. She has published in the Review of Irish Studies in Europe (RISE) and was co-author of Coal Mining and Gentrification in Japan published in 2019.Kit Ying Lye is currently Senior Lecturer at the Singapore University of Social Sciences. Her dissertation focuses on the use of magical realism in the representation of Cold War violence in Southeast Asian literature. Her research interests are, mainly, the Cold War in Southeast Asia, history and its remembrance, death in Southeast Asian literature and culture, and Southeast Asian Cultural Heritage. She has published works that discuss the use of literature to represent civil wars in Southeast Asia. She is also the principal investigator of the research project on Singapore Chinese Funerary Practices. She is the co-editor of Death and the Afterlife: Multidisciplinary Perspectives from a Global City (Routledge).

• List of Figures and TableList of ContributorsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Reading Trauma and Violence: Expanding HorizonsYiru Lim and Kit Ying LyeiPart 1Imagining and Reimagining1.The Human Inclination Toward Violence and Where We Stand in the Age of Mass ConsumptionMichael Kearney2.Fictional Testimonies: Narrative structures of resistance in White Chrysanthemum and How We DisappearedW. Michelle Wang3.Fictive Realities: Witnessing and the Imagination in The Seven Moons of Maali AlmeidaYiru Lim4.Representing Anthropocene Trauma: Disaster Narratives of the Bhopal Gas Tragedy in Indian Cinema Sony Jalarajan Raj and Adith K. Suresh5.The Unbearable Lightness of the Future-Shock-Myth-Traumatized Swallowers: A Reading of the Assassination of Shinzo Abe Setsuko AdachiPart 2Remembering and Forgetting6.National Identities, Hybrid Postmemory, and Cultural Remediation in Akira Mizubayashi's Novel Reine de CoeurPriscilla Charrat-Nelson7.Giving a Voice Back to the Families of Soviet ‘Public Enemies’ Through Postmemory Graphic Narratives Iana Nikitenko 8.The Telling of Violence, and the Violence of the Telling: Narrative and the Choice to Forget in Tan Twan Eng’s The Garden of Evening MistsClaudia J. M. Cornelissen9.Mass Graves and Topography: Narrating Violence through the Visible Reminders of the Nellie Massacre, 1983 Jabeen Yasmeen10.Refugee Poetics: Reassembling the Syrian Identity on Digital Media Waed HasanPart 3Reclaiming and Telling11.Beyond the Impossibility of Representation: Aesthetic Politics in Yun Ch’oe’s There a Petal Silently FallsHeejung Kang 12.Words Stuck in the Throat: The Paradox of Deep Silence and Narrative Plenty in Postwar Lebanese Fiction Renée Ragin Randall13.Speaking the Unspeakable in Nora Okja Keller’s Comfort WomanJudy Joo-Ae Bae14.Listening to Lost Voices: Reading Wartime Rape in Vyvyane Loh’s Breaking the TongueNicole Ong15.“We Must Find a Way to Do More Than Endure,” Silence as Resistance in Charmaine Craig’s Miss BurmaKit Ying Lye16.Tasting LossJoy Xin Yuan Wang and Hairuo JinIndex