What Happened? Re-presenting Traumas, Uncovering Recoveries

Elspeth McInnes is a sociologist and Senior Lecturer and researcher in the School of Education at the University of South Australia. Her research engages with family violence and child abuse, child abuse recovery and prevention.Danielle Schaub is a poet, short-story writer, photographer, and bibliotherapist as well as an Associate Professor at Oranim Academic College of Education, Israel and an Adjunct Professor at the University of Alberta, Canada. Her current research focuses on representation of trauma in contemporary Canadian fiction and psychoanalytic interpretations of cinematographic works.

• List of IllustrationsContributors’ NotesIntroductionElspeth McInnes and Danielle SchaubPart 1: Representing Trauma1 Reflections on the Wall: Artefacts and Valediction at the Vietnam Veterans’ MemorialMark Callaghan2 The Attack: Doueiry’s Depoliticisation of Trauma in the Transposition from Literature to FilmZeina Tarraf3 Re–imagining Atomic Bombing and 9/11: Kamila Shamsie’s Burnt ShadowsGen’ichiro Itakura4 Filming Trauma: Bodiless Voice and Voiceless Body in Beckett’s Eh JoeSvetlana Antropova5 The Disturbance of ImagesPaul VivianPart 2: Creativity and Trauma Recovery6 Shaping Personality through Suffering: The Transformative Writing of Pat MacEnultyKate Burton7 What Enables Resilience after Traumatic Childhood Experiences?Monica Hinton8 Investigating the Post-Traumatic Lens in the Choreographer’s WorkMarie France Forcier9 Reading Myself and Worlds: Coping Strategies in the Face of Cumulative TraumaDanielle Schaub10 Holotropic Breathwork as a Therapeutic Intervention for Survivors of Trauma: An Autoethnographic Case StudyPeter Bray