Magda Stroińska is Professor of German and Linguistics at McMaster University (Canada).Vittorina (Vikki) Cecchetto is Associate Professor (Retired) of Italian and Linguistics, McMaster University (Canada).Kate Szymanski is Associate Professor at the Derner Institute of Advanced Psychological Studies at Adelphi University in New York (USA).

• Contents: Magda Stroińska/Kate Szymanski/Vikki Cecchetto: Introduction: We need to talk about trauma – Xavier Martin: France in Shock from its Revolution – Jakub Kazecki: The Functions of Humor and Laughter in Narrating Trauma in German Literature of the First World War – Bożena Karwowska: The Human Body in Nazi Concentration Camps: The Case of Stanisław Grzesiuk – Tessa Lunney: Traumatic Silences in Contemporary Australian War Fiction – Lieve Spaas: A Trauma in Hiding: The Case of Jules Marchal – Barbara Chettle: The Trauma of Culture Shock – Kebedech Tekleab: Exploring the Edge of Trauma: The Differing Dynamics of Tragedy and Sublime – Leena Kurvet-Käosaar: Creating a Habitable Everyday in Estonian Women’s Diaries of the Repressions of the Stalinist Regime – Irena Radišević: Trauma in Words: Comparison of the Coverage in Le Devoir and the Toronto Star of the 2010 Haitian Earthquake – Magda Stroińska: Metaphors we li(v)e by: Disease as a Conceptual Metaphor for Sexual Assault – Sarah Lightman: Metamorphosing Difficulties: The Portrayal of Trauma in Autobiographical Comics – Avi Sanders/Kate Szymanski: Having a Relative with Mental Illness: Beyond the Traditional Definition of Trauma – Avigail Gordon/Kate Szymanski: Breaking the Silence: Reevaluating What Makes an Experience a Trauma – Kate Szymanski/Nancy Rosenfeld: Trauma Narrative: Recovery and Posttraumatic Growth - A Clinical Perspective.

Magda Stroińska is Professor of German and Linguistics at McMaster University (Canada).Vittorina (Vikki) Cecchetto is Associate Professor (Retired) of Italian and Linguistics, McMaster University (Canada).Kate Szymanski is Associate Professor at the Derner Institute of Advanced Psychological Studies at Adelphi University in New York (USA).

• Contents: Magda Stroińska/Kate Szymanski/Vikki Cecchetto: Introduction: We need to talk about trauma – Xavier Martin: France in Shock from its Revolution – Jakub Kazecki: The Functions of Humor and Laughter in Narrating Trauma in German Literature of the First World War – Bożena Karwowska: The Human Body in Nazi Concentration Camps: The Case of Stanisław Grzesiuk – Tessa Lunney: Traumatic Silences in Contemporary Australian War Fiction – Lieve Spaas: A Trauma in Hiding: The Case of Jules Marchal – Barbara Chettle: The Trauma of Culture Shock – Kebedech Tekleab: Exploring the Edge of Trauma: The Differing Dynamics of Tragedy and Sublime – Leena Kurvet-Käosaar: Creating a Habitable Everyday in Estonian Women’s Diaries of the Repressions of the Stalinist Regime – Irena Radišević: Trauma in Words: Comparison of the Coverage in Le Devoir and the Toronto Star of the 2010 Haitian Earthquake – Magda Stroińska: Metaphors we li(v)e by: Disease as a Conceptual Metaphor for Sexual Assault – Sarah Lightman: Metamorphosing Difficulties: The Portrayal of Trauma in Autobiographical Comics – Avi Sanders/Kate Szymanski: Having a Relative with Mental Illness: Beyond the Traditional Definition of Trauma – Avigail Gordon/Kate Szymanski: Breaking the Silence: Reevaluating What Makes an Experience a Trauma – Kate Szymanski/Nancy Rosenfeld: Trauma Narrative: Recovery and Posttraumatic Growth - A Clinical Perspective.

Magda Stroińska is Professor of German and Linguistics at McMaster University (Canada).Vittorina (Vikki) Cecchetto is Associate Professor (Retired) of Italian and Linguistics, McMaster University (Canada).Kate Szymanski is Associate Professor at the Derner Institute of Advanced Psychological Studies at Adelphi University in New York (USA).

• Contents: Magda Stroińska/Kate Szymanski/Vikki Cecchetto: Introduction: We need to talk about trauma – Xavier Martin: France in Shock from its Revolution – Jakub Kazecki: The Functions of Humor and Laughter in Narrating Trauma in German Literature of the First World War – Bożena Karwowska: The Human Body in Nazi Concentration Camps: The Case of Stanisław Grzesiuk – Tessa Lunney: Traumatic Silences in Contemporary Australian War Fiction – Lieve Spaas: A Trauma in Hiding: The Case of Jules Marchal – Barbara Chettle: The Trauma of Culture Shock – Kebedech Tekleab: Exploring the Edge of Trauma: The Differing Dynamics of Tragedy and Sublime – Leena Kurvet-Käosaar: Creating a Habitable Everyday in Estonian Women’s Diaries of the Repressions of the Stalinist Regime – Irena Radišević: Trauma in Words: Comparison of the Coverage in Le Devoir and the Toronto Star of the 2010 Haitian Earthquake – Magda Stroińska: Metaphors we li(v)e by: Disease as a Conceptual Metaphor for Sexual Assault – Sarah Lightman: Metamorphosing Difficulties: The Portrayal of Trauma in Autobiographical Comics – Avi Sanders/Kate Szymanski: Having a Relative with Mental Illness: Beyond the Traditional Definition of Trauma – Avigail Gordon/Kate Szymanski: Breaking the Silence: Reevaluating What Makes an Experience a Trauma – Kate Szymanski/Nancy Rosenfeld: Trauma Narrative: Recovery and Posttraumatic Growth - A Clinical Perspective.