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.

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Contributors’ Notes

Introduction

 Elspeth McInnes and Danielle Schaub



Part 1: Representing Trauma



1 Reflections on the Wall: Artefacts and Valediction at the Vietnam Veterans’ Memorial

 Mark Callaghan



2 The Attack: Doueiry’s Depoliticisation of Trauma in the Transposition from Literature to Film

 Zeina Tarraf



3 Re–imagining Atomic Bombing and 9/11: Kamila Shamsie’s Burnt Shadows

 Gen’ichiro Itakura



4 Filming Trauma: Bodiless Voice and Voiceless Body in Beckett’s Eh Joe

 Svetlana Antropova



5 The Disturbance of Images

 Paul Vivian



Part 2: Creativity and Trauma Recovery



6 Shaping Personality through Suffering: The Transformative Writing of Pat MacEnulty

 Kate Burton



7 What Enables Resilience after Traumatic Childhood Experiences?

 Monica Hinton



8 Investigating the Post-Traumatic Lens in the Choreographer’s Work

 Marie France Forcier



9 Reading Myself and Worlds: Coping Strategies in the Face of Cumulative Trauma

 Danielle Schaub



10 Holotropic Breathwork as a Therapeutic Intervention for Survivors of Trauma: An Autoethnographic Case Study

 Peter Bray