War and Trauma in Past and Present

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Acknowledgements ........................................................................................................ v

CHIARA MANGHI, MAREIKE SPYCHALA, LINA STREMPEL
Introduction................................................................................................................... 1

RÜDIGER HEINZE
Waltzing with War: The Representation of Trauma and War in Comics ....................... 9

AMY PARZIALE
Dresden, War, and Trauma in Two American Novels ................................................. 33

OLGAHAN BAKSI YALÇIN
Unraveling the Past: Su Friedrich's The Ties That Bind (1984)
and Mindy Faber's Delirium (1993) ............................................................................. 43

CLAUDIA ZINI
Healing Trauma of Displacement and Loss with Art:
Autobiographical Survival Strategies in Post-war Bosnia and Herzegovina ................ 55

FLORIAN LÜTZELBERGER
Reading Apollinaire's Calligrammes. Poèmes de la paix et de la guerre
as an Attempt of Processing the Horrors of War .......................................................... 65

KERSTIN-ANJA MÜNDERLEIN
"Perhaps some day the sun will shine again":
The (In)ability of Processing War Trauma in Vera Brittain's Poetry ........................... 79

LINA STREMPEL
Planting your Flag on the Summit of Sorrow:
Writing War and Trauma in Sebastian Barry's On Canaan's Side ............................... 91

MATTHIAS ANDRÉ VOIGT
Indigenous and non-Indigenous Combat Veterans
and the Lakota Sweat Lodge (Inípi) Ritual:
War-related Trauma, Ceremony, and Transformation ............................................... 103

ÁNGELA MARÍA BELTRÁN HERNÁNDEZ
Civilian Empowerment: A Healing Experience after the War ................................... 117

ILIAS BEN-MNA
How Rambo and Reagan Returned to Vietnam:
The Cinematic Renegotiation of a National Trauma
Through Spectacle and Wish Fulfilment .................................................................... 129

BRAHIM BENMOH
Writing Trauma and the Iraq War in Post-9/11 Prose Fiction:
Kevin Powers' The Yellow Birds as a Case Study ...................................................... 143

NADIA NAAR GADA
The Trauma of the Colonial War in Algerian Fiction ................................................ 153

RIKKE SCHUBART
Trauma, War, and Female Leadership in the Fantastic Genres:
Game of Thrones, The Handmaid's Tale , and Vikings ............................................... 163

RAFFAELE CUTOLO
The Trauma of Self-Loathing: War, Stillness, and Atonement
in John Boyne's The Absolutist .................................................................................. 179

MAREIKE SPYCHALA
"There is a definite minority of round-eyed women":
Gender, Ethnicity, and Militarism in Women's Vietnam War Autobiographies ........ 191

MARIA-VIRGINIA TSIKOPOULOU
Defending Freedom or Traumatizing Individuals?
Exploring the Dimensions of Trauma in Victoria Brittain and Gillian Slovo's
Guantanamo: 'Honor Bound to Defend Freedom' (2004) .......................................... 203

KALLIOPI FRAGKOULI
Identities at War: Fragmentations of Self, Space and Time
in Naomi Wallace's In the Heart of America ............................................................. 213