Topography of Trauma: Fissures, Disruptions and Transfigurations

Danielle Schaub, Ph.D. (1994), Associate Professor at Oranim Academic College of Education, Israel, and Adjunct Professor at the University of Alberta, Canada, has published a monograph, several essay collections and articles, including What Happened? Re-Presenting Traumas, Uncovering Recoveries (Brill, 2018).Jacqueline Linder, Ph.D. (2014), Director of the Counselling Master Program at the Canadian campus in Edmonton of the City University of Seattle, has published multiple articles on psychological trauma and psychospiritual injury, including ‘Exploring Soul Loss Through Arts-Based Research’ (2015).Kori D. Novak, Ph.D. (2013), specialises in degenerative neuro-cognitive disease, end-of-life care and aging in the U.S. corrections system. She was a post-doctoral fellow in palliative and end-of-life care at the Stanford School of Medicine, is a Researcher with theOxford Research Centre in the Humanities and a visiting scholar at Suffolk University (England).Stephanie Y. Tam is an independent researcher, writer, and producer. She completed an MSc in Evidence-Based Social Intervention and MSt in World Literatures at the University of Oxford as a Daniel M. Sachs Scholar. Her research interests include trauma theory, narrative therapy, postcolonial and migration studies, and the role of fantasy in memory, which she also explores in her creative work.Claudio Vascia Zanini, Ph.D. (2011), is Professor of Literatures in English at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul and founding member of the research group Estudos do Gótico (CNPq). His research interests include Gothic studies, horror cinema and the interfaces between fiction and psychoanalysis. Besides articles, book chapters, and other co-edited volumes, he is the author of The Orgy is Over: Phantasies, Fake Realities and the Loss of Boundaries in Chuck Palahniuk's Haunted (2013).

• List of IllustrationsNotes on ContributorsIntroduction – Mapping the Topography of TraumaDanielle SchaubPart 1Conceptualising Trauma1 The Continuum of TraumaFrancesca Brencio and Kori D. Novak2 Encountering Trauma ‘Too Soon’ and ‘Too Late’: Caruth, Laplanche, and the Freudian NachträglichkeitCassie Pedersen3 ‘A World of Death and Phantoms’: Auschwitz, Androids, and the Ethical Demands of Reading Trauma and the Fantastic in Willing UnbeliefTony M. Vinci4 Through the Looking-Glass: Child Sexual Abuse from the Inside-OutJacqueline Linder5 Working with Addiction and Trauma: Mental Health Professionals Reflect on Their Use of SpiritualityPeter BrayPart 2Contemplating Trauma6 Transformative Shocks: War Trauma in David Rabe’s Sticks and Bones and Sam Shepard’s States of ShockAsli Tekinay7 ‘Pinned limb to limb by a ton of rocks’: Annihilation in the Face of Captivity and Torture in Alan Cumyn’s Man of BoneDanielle Schaub8 Writing Trauma, Writing Modern: Nadeem Aslam’s The Wasted Vigil and Atiq Rahimi’s The Patience StoneGen’ichiro Itakura9 Body and Trauma in Chuck Palahniuk’s HauntedClaudio Vescia Zanini10 ‘I Used To Be Human Once’: Trauma and Reconfigurations of the Body in Chemical DisastersElwin Susan John11 Painting over the Past: Political Palimpsests in Northern Ireland and the Complexities of the ‘Whitewash’ InitiativeMark Callaghan12 Transcending Genre: Narrative Strategies for Creating Literary Crime Fiction as a Subset of Trauma LiteratureLeanne DoddPart 3Engaging Trauma13 Illness Is a Window: Reframing Leukaemia through Dharma ArtNicholas Quin Serenati14 Engaging Trauma Resulting from Sexual Violence through Autoethnography and PhotovoiceM. Candace Christensen15 Creating and Contextualising Trauma-Related Contemporary ChoreographyMarie France Forcier16 Eating Disorders: Traumatic Context and InterventionsDiedra L. ClayIndex of NamesIndexes of Terms