Table Of ContentTopography of Trauma: Fissures, Disruptions and Transfigurations
At the Interface/ Probing
the Boundaries
Founding Editor
Rob Fisher (Interdisciplinarian, Oxford, UK)
Advisory Board
Peter Bray (Programme Leader for Counsellor Education, School
of Counselling, Human Services and Social Work Education
and Social Work, University of Auckland, New Zealand)
Robert Butler (Professor/ Chair, Department of
History, Elmhurst College, Illinois, USA)
Ioana Cartarescu (Independent Scholar, Bucharest, Romania)
Seán Moran (Waterford Institute of Technology, Ireland)
Stephen Morris (Author and Independent Scholar, New York, USA)
John Parry (Edward Brunet Professor of Law and Associate Deanof
Faculty, Lewis & Clark Law School, Portland, Oregon, USA)
Natalia Kaloh Vid (Associate Professor, Department of Translation
Studies, Faculty of Arts, University of Maribor, Slovenia)
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Topography of Trauma: Fissures,
Disruptions and Transfigurations
Edited by
Danielle Schaub, Jacqueline Linder, Kori D. Novak,
Stephanie Tam and Claudio Vescia Zanini
LEIDEN | BOSTON
Cover illustration by Danielle Schaub. Used with permission.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Linder, Jacqueline, editor. | Schaub, Danielle, editor. | Novak, Kori D., editor. |
Tam, Stephanie, editor| Zanini, Claudio Vescia, editor.
Title: Topography of trauma : fissures, disruptions and transfigurations /
edited by Jacqueline Linder, Danielle Schaub, Kori D. Novak, Stephanie Tam,
Claudio Vescia Zanini.
Description: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2019]
Identifiers: LCCN 2019021485 | ISBN 9789004405431 (paperback ; alk paper)
Subjects: LCSH: Psychic trauma. | Psychic trauma in art. | Psychic trauma in literature.
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Contents
List of Illustrations ix
Notes on Contributors x
Introduction: Mapping the Topography of Trauma 1
Danielle Schaub
part 1
Conceptualising Trauma
1 The Continuum of Trauma 11
Francesca Brencio and Kori D. Novak
2 Encountering Trauma ‘Too Soon’ and ‘Too Late’: Caruth, Laplanche, and
the Freudian Nachträglichkeit 25
Cassie Pedersen
3 ‘A World of Death and Phantoms’: Auschwitz, Androids, and the Ethical
Demands of Reading Trauma and the Fantastic in Willing Unbelief 45
Tony M. Vinci
4 Through the Looking- Glass: Child Sexual Abuse from the
Inside- Out 62
Jacqueline Linder
5 Working with Addiction and Trauma: Mental Health Professionals
Reflect on Their Use of Spirituality 78
Peter Bray
part 2
Contemplating Trauma
6 Transformative Shocks: War Trauma in David Rabe’s Sticks and Bones
and Sam Shepard’s States of Shock 115
Aslı Tekinay
vi Contents
7 ‘Pinned limb to limb by a ton of rocks’: Annihilation in the Face of
Captivity and Torture in Alan Cumyn’s Man of Bone 133
Danielle Schaub
8 Writing Trauma, Writing Modern: Nadeem Aslam’s The Wasted Vigil and
Atiq Rahimi’s The Patience Stone 153
Gen’ichiro Itakura
9 Body and Trauma in Chuck Palahniuk’s Haunted 173
Claudio Vescia Zanini
10 ‘I Used To Be Human Once’: Trauma and Reconfigurations of the Body
in Chemical Disasters 192
Elwin Susan John
11 Painting over the Past: Political Palimpsests in Northern Ireland and the
Complexities of the ‘Whitewash’ Initiative 208
Mark Callaghan
12 Transcending Genre: Narrative Strategies for Creating Literary Crime
Fiction as a Subset of Trauma Literature 234
Leanne Dodd
part 3
Engaging Trauma
13 Illness Is a Window: Reframing Leukaemia through Dharma Art 257
Nicholas Quin Serenati
14 Engaging Trauma Resulting from Sexual Violence through
Autoethnography and Photovoice 283
M. Candace Christensen
15 Creating and Contextualising Trauma- Related Contemporary
Choreography 304
Marie France Forcier
Contents vii
16 Eating Disorders: Traumatic Context and Interventions 325
Diedra L. Clay
Index of Names 343
Index of Terms 347
Illustrations
11.1 A ‘terrorist’ mural. East Belfast. March, 2016. Image courtesy of Mark
Callaghan. 211
11.2 The mural known as ‘The Memorial to Women Volunteers and Victims of
the Occupation’. Ballymurphy, Belfast. March, 2016. Image courtesy of Mark
Callaghan. 212
11.3 The Loyalist West Bank mural, as seen from the Derry Walls. March, 2016. Image
courtesy of Mark Callaghan. 218
11.4 The Loyalist West Bank mural, as seen from the Derry Walls. March, 2016. Image
courtesy of Mark Callaghan. 219
11.5 A ‘King Billy’ mural, Sandy Row, central Belfast. March, 2016. Image courtesy of
Mark Callaghan. 221
11.6 The new ‘Safe House Mural’, Ballymurphy, Belfast. March, 2016. Image courtesy
of Mark Callaghan. 227
11.7 The Petrol Bomber mural, Bogside, Derry. March, 2016. Image courtesy of Mark
Callaghan. 229
13.1 Window © 2011. Courtesy of Nicholas Quin Serenati. 258
13.2 Misconceptions © 2012. Courtesy of Nicholas Quin Serenati. 278
14.1 ‘Velveeta’. 284
14.2 ‘The Ride Home’. 285
14.3 ‘Everybody Has an Opinion’. 286
14.4 ‘The Rib Cage’. 287
14.5 ‘Naked on the Beach’. 288
14.6 ‘The Warrior’. 289
15.1 Johnson and Laberge- Côté in rehearsal. Photo by Craig Chambers.
©2015. 309
15.2 The Podium: Rehearsal. Photo by Craig Chambers © 2015. 312
15.3 Pony Training: Rehearsal. Photo by Craig Chambers © 2015. 312
15.4 Carrots in Antique Bucket. Photo by Craig Chambers. © 2015. 314
15.5 The Bit Mouthpiece. Photo by Craig Chambers. © 2015. 315
15.6 Image removed from excerpt. Photo by Craig Chambers. © 2015. 320
