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  • Regaining Lost Humanity: Dealing with trauma in exile

    Author(s)
    Mason, Robert
    Parkes, Geoffrey
    Griffith University Author(s)
    Mason, Robert
    Year published
    2015
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    Abstract
    If the processes of forced migration involve trauma, distance and rupture, what does it mean if both your country of origin and your new home try to erase you from their public memory? In this chapter, we present the literary work of Cuban-born Reinaldo Arenas as a representation of resilience against multiple traumas. Rather than dissociation, which is often found in documented cases of trauma, Arenas’s projections of self and place were a productive mechanism he used to survive. Literally and figuratively, for much of his life Arenas lived that embodied conviction, that indeed ‘words — might save him’ (1989, p. 49).If the processes of forced migration involve trauma, distance and rupture, what does it mean if both your country of origin and your new home try to erase you from their public memory? In this chapter, we present the literary work of Cuban-born Reinaldo Arenas as a representation of resilience against multiple traumas. Rather than dissociation, which is often found in documented cases of trauma, Arenas’s projections of self and place were a productive mechanism he used to survive. Literally and figuratively, for much of his life Arenas lived that embodied conviction, that indeed ‘words — might save him’ (1989, p. 49).
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    Book Title
    Trauma and Public Memory
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137406804_13
    Subject
    Studies in Human Society not elsewhere classified
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/344669
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