Breaking Intergenerational Cycles of Repetition: A Global Dialogue on Historical Trauma and MemoryThe authors in this volume explore the interconnected issues of intergenerational trauma and traumatic memory in societies with a history of collective violence across the globe. Each chapter’s discussion offers a critical reflection on historical trauma and its repercussions, and how memory can be used as a basis for dialogue and transformation. The perspectives include, among others: the healing journey of three generations of a family of Holocaust survivors and their dialogue with third generation German students over time; traumatic memories of the British concentration camps in South Africa; reparations and reconciliation in the context of the historical trauma of Aboriginal Australians; and the use of the arts as a strategy of dialogue and transformation. |
Contents
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Rethinking Remorse The Problem of the Banality of Full Disclosure in Testimonies from South Africa | 27 |
Towards the Poetic Justice of Reparative Citizenship | 49 |
Moving Beyond Violence What We Learn from Two Former Combatants about the Transition from Aggression to Recognition | 71 |
Intercultural Dialogue in the Aftermath of Historical and Cultural Trauma | 90 |
Interrupting Cycles of Repetition Creating Spaces for Dialogue Facing and Mourning the Past | 113 |
Memoryscapes Spatial Legacies of Conflict and the Culture of Historical Reconciliation in PostConflict Belfast | 135 |
Ending the Haunting Halting Whisperings of the Unspoken Confronting the Haitian Past in the Literary Works of Agnant Danticat and Trouillot | 213 |
Intergenerational Jewish Trauma in the Contemporary South African Novel | 234 |
Handing Down the Holocaust in Germany A Reflectionon the Dialogue between Second Generation Descendants of Perpetrators and Survivors | 247 |
Confronting the Past Engaging the Other in the Present The Intergenerational Healing Journey of a Holocaust Survivor and his Children | 267 |
Breaking Cycles of Trauma and Violence Psychosocial Approaches to Healing and Reconciliation in Burundi | 291 |
Breaking Cycles of Trauma through Diversified Pathways to Healing Western and Indigenous Approaches with Survivors of Torture and War | 308 |
Acting Together to Disrupt Cycles of Violence Performance and Social Healing | 325 |
They Did Not See the Bodies Confronting and Embracing in the PostApartheid University | 343 |
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