Trauma, Experience and Narrative in Europe After World War II Kivimki Ville
Trauma, Experience and Narrative in Europe After World War II Kivimki Ville This book promotes a historically and culturally sensitive understanding of trauma during and after World War II. The…
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Trauma, Experience and Narrative in Europe After World War II Kivimki Ville
This book promotes a historically and culturally sensitive understanding of trauma during and after World War II. The chapters analyze traumatic experiences among soldiers and civilians alike and expand the study of traumatic violence beyond psychiatric discourses and treatments. Focusing especially on Eastern and Central Europe, its contributors take a fresh look at the experiences of violence and loss in 1939-45 and their long-term effects in different cultures and societies.
Moving the focus of historical trauma studies from World War I to World War II and from Western Europe to the east, it breaks new ground and helps to explain the troublesome politics of memory and trauma in post-1945 Europe all the way to the present While acknowledging the problems of applying a present-day medical concept to the past, this book makes a case for a cultural, social and historical study of trauma.