Trauma and the Mediated Self : Contemporary Life Writing Across Media
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Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
1666967491
ISBN-13
9781666967494
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Imprint
Lexington Books
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Nov 7th, 2024
Print length
212 Pages
Weight
474 grams
Dimensions
16.00 x 23.70 x 2.20 cms
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This book analyzes contemporary representations of trauma in life writing across several media, interrogating the specificity of each medium. The author argues that the representation of trauma in these autobiographical media has created a new trauma aesthetics that is defined by a cautious (re)engagement with the real.
Trauma and the Mediated Self: Contemporary Life Writing Across Media examines twenty-first century representations of trauma in life writing across several media, including printed-word memoir, graphic memoir, autodocumentary, and autobiographical video games. Through careful analysis, Loredana Bercuci uncovers the medium-specific demands for the representation of trauma in life writing in the context of the contemporary memoir boom. She broadly argues that for a trauma representation to be considered successful, each medium adapts its own means to adhere to a certain definition of trauma and in this manner a particular piece of life writing is accepted as a successful and reliable representation of trauma. The representation of trauma in these autobiographical media has created a new trauma aesthetics that is defined by a cautious (re)engagement with the real.
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