The Crisis of Manhood

Abstract

Annotation This lofty volume analyzes a circular cultural relationship: not only how trauma is reflected in cultural processes and products, but also how trauma itself acts as a critical shaper of literature, the visual and performing arts, architecture and religion and mythmaking. The political power of trauma is seen through US, Israeli and Japanese art forms as they reflect varied roles of perpetrator, victim and witness. Part I: Representations of trauma. Literature as trauma : the postmodern option-Franz Kafka and Cormac Mccarthy / David Gurevitz ; Cultural trauma and the media / Allen Meek ; Television : a traumatic culture / Dan Arav ; Popular trauma culture : the pain of others between Holocaust tropes and kitsch-sentimental melodrama / Anne Rothe ; The trauma of modernism : between existential indeterminacy and allegoresis / Dennis Sobolev ; Before recognition : on the aesthetics of aftermath / Lisa Saltzman ; From Hiroshima to Fukushima : comics and animation as subversive agents of memory in Japan / Ory Bartal ; Performative recollection : Koizumi Meiro representations of kamikaze pilots and the trauma of the Asia-Pacific war in Japan / Ayelet Zohar ; Architecture and trauma / Teresa Stoppani ; Art as the transport-station of trauma / Bracha Lichtenberg Ettinger -- Part II: Theory of trauma. The trauma of philosophy / Frank Seeburger ; Irresponsible nonsense : an epistemological and ethical critique of postmodern trauma theory / Anne Rothe ; The death of the witness in the era of testimony: Primo Levi and Georges Perec / Yochai Ataria ; Walking, walking out, and walking through : transitional space and traumatic time / Haviva Pedaya ; Trauma and monotheism : Sigmund Freud’s Moses and monotheism and the possibility of writing a traumatic history of religion / Koji Yamashiro ; The crisis of manhood / Yochai Ataria ; Laius complex and shocks of maternality : with Franz Kafka and Sylvia Plath / Bracha Lichtenberg Ettinger ; Fear, trauma, and posttraumatic stress disorder : clinical, neurobiological, and cultural perspectives / Mikael Rubin, Maya Neria, and Yuval Neria -- Part III: Case studies of collective trauma. Some reflections on transmitting the memory of the Holocaust and its implications, particularly in Israel / Saul Friedländer ; Placing collective trauma within its social context : the case of 9/11 attacks / Emily Joyner, Katharine Reiner van der Hoorn, Ari Platt, Mikael Rubin, Erel Shvil, and Yuval Neria ; Masculinity, spirituality, and male wartime sexual trauma / R. Ruard Ganzevoort and Srdjan Sremac ; Killing the killer : rampage and gun rights as a syndrome / Kirby Farrell ; Loss, traumatic bereavement, and mourning culture : the Israel example / Eliezer Witztum, Ruth Malkinson, and Simon Shimshon Rubin ; Fear and silence in Burma and Indonesia : comparing two national tragedies and two individual outcomes of trauma / Robert Lemelson and Seinenu M. Thein-Lemelson ; Conclusion : trauma and culture : how trauma can shape the human mind / Yuval Neria and Yochai Ataria.