Violence and the Cultural Politics of Trauma

by Jane Kilby

During the late 1970s and 1980s speaking out about the traumatic reality of incest and rape was a rare and politically groundbreaking act. Today it is a ubiquitous feature of popular culture and its political value uncertain. In Violence and the Cultural Politics of Trauma, Jane Kilby explores the complexity and consequences of this shift in giving first-hand testimony by focusing on debates over recovered memory therapy and false memory syndrome,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0748618163
• ISBN13: 9780748618163
• Release Date: April 2007
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.87 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.6" x 9.4"