Conclusion [Trauma and Public Memory]
Author(s)
Goodall, Jane
Lee, Chris
Griffith University Author(s)
Year published
2015
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The gap between the individual’s experience of trauma in the world and the ways in which that trauma is taken up as part of the memory of a wider public is a hard one to close and a fraught thing to ignore. The difficulties in examining this tension can be traced to the methodological and theoretical challenges of an inter-disciplinary set of knowledges that struggle to understand memory as a broader social phenomenon and trauma as an encounter with harm that is implicated in a wider set of social and political contingencies.The gap between the individual’s experience of trauma in the world and the ways in which that trauma is taken up as part of the memory of a wider public is a hard one to close and a fraught thing to ignore. The difficulties in examining this tension can be traced to the methodological and theoretical challenges of an inter-disciplinary set of knowledges that struggle to understand memory as a broader social phenomenon and trauma as an encounter with harm that is implicated in a wider set of social and political contingencies.
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Book Title
Trauma and Public Memory
Subject
Australian literature (excl. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander literature)