Throughout the past century; traumatic experiences have been re-enacted frequently by evolving media and art forms. Now there is a significant body of theory across academic disciplines focused on the representation of cataclysmic European and US historical events. However; less critical attention has been devoted to the representation of havoc outside the West; even though depictions of Third-World disasters saturate contemporary media and art around the globe.This book considers traumatic histories internationally in a broad range of creative arts and visual media representations. Deploying diverse applications of the conventional theories of trauma; it examines the theoretical limitations at the same time as considering alternative methodologies. Interrogating Trauma is concerned with the examination of the concept of trauma; and how it is (often unproblematically) used to theorise the cultural representation of disaster and atrocity. It offers a theorisation of trauma; in order to reappraise the relationship between cultural representation and the socio-historical processes which are marked by violence; conflict and suffering.This book was published as a special issue of Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies.
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