Postcolonial Witnessing argues that the suffering engendered by colonialism needs to be
acknowledged more fully, on its own terms, in its own terms, and in relation to traumatic First …

This book analyzes contemporary visual art produced in the context of conflict and trauma
from a range of countries, including Colombia, Northern Ireland, South Africa, and Australia …

I'm standing in a cinema foyer waiting excitedly to be allowed entry. I'm here with two of my
oldest friends, both male, whom I've known since I was a kid. We're surrounded by similar …

Trauma studies, an area of cultural investigation that came to prominence in the early-to-mid-
1990s, prides itself on its explicit commitment to ethics, which sets it apart from the …

Trauma theory is an area of cultural investigation that emerged in the early 1990s as a
product of the so-called ethical turn affecting the humanities. It promised to infuse the study …

The museum today faces complex questions of definition, representation, ethics, aspiration
and economic survival. Alongside this we see burgeoning use of an array of new media …

If one of the prominent rhetorical features in human rights documentaries is to create a
rhetorical space of intersubjectivity—of bearing witness—how to account for ruptures in …

This essay surveys the fields of oral history and memory studies in Australia since the
publication of the landmark volume Memory and History in Twentieth-Century Australia in …

T he last decades of the twentieth century witnessed the unprecedented rise in genres of life
writing, narratives published primarily in the West 1 but circulated widely around the globe …

The subject...—female autobiographies, memoirs, letters and diaries—represents one of
those cases of maddening neglect that have motivated feminist scholarship since 1970. This …