Trauma Culture: The Politics of Terror and Loss in Media and Literature

by E.AnnKaplan (Author)

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  Paperback
  2005

  $30.37

  In Trauma Culture, E. Ann Kaplan explores the relationship between the impact of trauma on individuals and on entire cultures and nations. Arguing that humans possess a need to draw meaning from personal experience and to communicate what happens to others, she examines the forms that are used to bridge the experience.