Worlds of Hurt presents a coherent rendering of the relationships between individual trauma and cultural interpretation, using as its focus the Holocaust, the Vietnam War, and the phenomenon of sexualized violence against women. Survivors of these traumas constitute themselves as unique communities and bear witness to their traumatic experiences both privately and publicly. The survivors themselves write a "literature of trauma"--born of the need to tell and retell the story of the traumatic experience, to make it "real" to the victim, the community and to the larger pyblic.
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"...demonstrates methodological strength in informative and enlightening close textual analyses. [Tal's] analysis of the collective trauma women suffer is excellent..." Choice
"This audacious and brilliant book is designed to make us feel, among other things, very uncomfortable...a strikingly original and valuable contribution." H. Bruce Franklin, Rutgers University
"[Tal's] careful comparison and discussion are an important contribution to our understanding of the social construction of profound traumatic experiences and how they are made tolerable by the surviviors and the wider society." Canadaian Review of Comparative Literature
"This audacious and brilliant book is designed to make us feel, among other things, very uncomfortable...a strikingly original and valuable contribution." H. Bruce Franklin, Rutgers University
"[Tal's] careful comparison and discussion are an important contribution to our understanding of the social construction of profound traumatic experiences and how they are made tolerable by the surviviors and the wider society." Canadaian Review of Comparative Literature
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Using as its focus the Holocaust, the Vietnam War and sexualized violence against women, this text presents a coherent rendering of the relationships between individual trauma and cultural interpretation. Survivors of these traumas bear witness to their traumatic experiences.
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Kali Tal's crisply articulated use of language creates the possibility in the soul of the reader to incorporate her definitive exposition, which in turn allows her innate compassion to salve the wounds of the reader. Not only are we given the focus of direct engagement on a subject too seldom acknowledged, but through that definition given personal empathy, another too rare currency. It is no surprise that so many have found resonance in her extraordinary and universally applicable text.
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On December 1, 1991, Elie Wiesel presented former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger with the Elie Wiesel Remembrance Award. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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On December 1, 1991, Elie Wiesel presented former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger with the Elie Wiesel Remembrance Award. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
light that cannot fade, sexual abuse survivor literature, obsidian mirror, survivor narratives, incest experience, survivor testimony, sexual abuse survivors, war literature, veterans against Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Des Pres, United States, World War, Elie Wiesel, Kiss Daddy Goodnight, Sure Voice, Ellen Bass, Nazi Germany, The Deerhunter, Lawrence Langer, Spring Flower, Facing History, Michael Herr, New York Times, Seven Beauties, Bruno Bettelheim, Farmer Nguyen, Gulf War, Kent State, Persian Gulf, The Bettelheim Problem, American Jews, Central America, Generation of Peace, George Bush New!
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- Kiss Daddy Goodnight by Louise Armstrong on 11 pages
- A Rumor of War by Philip Caputo on 5 pages
- Versions of Survival: The Holocaust and the Human Spirit (Suny Series in Modern Jewish Literature & Culture) by Lawrence L. Langer on 4 pages
- Coming to Terms: Feminism,Theory, Politics by Elizabeth Weed in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Thinking the Unthinkable: Meanings of the Holocaust by Roger S. Gottlieb in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
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- German-Jewish Literature in the Wake of the Holocaust: Grete Weil, Ruth Klüger, and the Politics of Address (Studies in European Culture and History) by Pascale R. Bos in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Index
- Foreign Bodies: Trauma, Corporeality, and Textuality in Contemporary American Culture (Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory) by Laura Di Prete on page 6, and Back Matter
- Trauma and Survival in Contemporary Fiction by Laurie Vickroy in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Dark Threats and White Knights: The Somalia Affair, Peacekeeping, and the New Imperialism by Sherene Razack in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Poe and the Printed Word (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture) by Kevin J. Hayes in Index
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