The Poetics of Transgenerational Trauma

by Meera Atkinson

Book Overview

The first decades of the twenty-first century have been beset by troubling social realities: coalition warfare, global terrorism and financial crisis, climate change, epidemics of family violence, violence toward women, addiction, neo-colonialism, continuing racial and religious conflict. While traumas involving large-scale or historical violence are widely represented in trauma theory, familial trauma is still largely considered a private matter,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1501349112
• ISBN13: 9781501349119
• Release Date: February 2019
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"