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TRAUMA AND LIFE
STORIES
Traumatic experiences and their consequences are often the core of life stories
told by survivors of natural disasters, war or other kinds of violence. In this
volume leading academics explore the relationship between the experiences of
terror and helplessness that have caused trauma, the ways in which survivors
remember, and the representation of these memories in the language and form of
their life stories.
International case studies include accounts of:
•
the migration journal of Ethiopian Jews to Israel
•
the life stories of Guatemalan war widows
•
violence in South Africa
•
persecution of political prisoners in South Africa and the former Czechoslovakia
•
war in the Malvinas
•
lynching in the Mississippi Flats
•
resistance in Zimbabwe’s liberation war
•
sexual abuse
•
the Irish Troubles.
The volume reveals the complexity of remembering and forgetting traumatic
experiences, and shows that survivors are likely to express themselves in stories
containing elements which are imaginary, fragmented or disjointed, and loaded
with symbolism.
Trauma and Life Stories is a ground-breaking work of relevance across the
social sciences. This new perspective on trauma will be of particular importance
to researchers in psychology, history, women’s studies, anthropology, sociology
and cultural studies.
Selma Leydesdorff is based at the Belle van Zuylen Instituut, University of
Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Kim Lacy Rogers is Professor of History and
American Studies at Dickinson College, Pennsylvania, USA. Graham Dawson
is a Senior Lecturer in Cultural and Historical Studies at the University of Brighton,
UK.
CONTENTS
List of illustrations and tables
vii
List of contributors
viii
Introduction: Trauma and life stories
1
SELMA LEYDESDORFF, GRAHAM DAWSON, NATASHA
BURCHARDT AND T. G. ASHPLANT
PART 1
Case studies
27
1
Trauma signals in life stories
29
GADI BENEZER
2
Remembering and forgetting: Guatemalan war widows’
forbidden memories
45
JUDITH ZUR
3
Interviewing in a culture of violence: moving memories
from Windermere to the Cape Flats
60
SEAN FIELD
4
Oppression, resistance and imprisonment: a montage of
different but similar stories in two countries
80
JAN COETZEE AND OTAKAR HULEC
5
The unending war: social myth, individual memory and
the Malvinas
95
FEDERICO LORENZ
6
Lynching stories: family and community memory in the
Mississippi Delta
113
KIM LACY ROGERS
v

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