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'Writing is a crucial process to the understanding of trauma. Whether trauma is represented through literature, fiction, non-fiction, auto/biography, memoir, post-generational and Indigenous narratives, poetry, graphic novels, art, photography, dance, plays, film, or closely observed by practitioners teaching creative writing within a classroom or an academic context, this issue includes the many and varied ways writers are bearing witness to trauma in the written form. Writing trauma offers a way of confronting, unpacking, questioning, de/constructing and navigating, the silence and the space, the gaps and the holes, the aporia, the unrepresentable and unknowable, of the sayable and unsayable, in order to reach a better understanding of how trauma is being re-presented within these diverse narratives.' (Introduction)
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Epigraph: ‘“Trauma” is actually the word for “wound” in ancient Greek, so testimony is the healing of the wound by shaping and giving shape to the experience that’s fragmented, a healing way of pulling fragments together …’ (Laub 2014: 49)
‘… trauma is not only the repetition of the missed encounter with death but also the missed encounter with one’s own survival. It is the incomprehensible act of surviving−of waking into life−that repeats and bears witness to what remains ungrasped …’ (Caruth 2013: 6) ‘… it is at the specific point at which knowing and not knowing intersect that the language of literature and the psychoanalytic theory of traumatic theory precisely meet …’ (Caruth 1996: 3)
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