Full Description
This book offers a collection of reflective essays on current testimonial production by researchers and practitioners working in multifaceted fields such as art and film performance, public memorialization, scriptotherapy, and fictional and non-fictional testimony.
The inter-disciplinary approach to the question of testimony offers a current account of testimony's diversity in the twenty-first century as well as its relevance within the fields of art, storytelling, trauma, and activism. The range of topics engage with questions of genre and modes of representation, ethical and political concerns of testimony, and the flaws and limitations of testimonial production giving testament to some of the ethical concerns of our present age.
Contributors are Alison Atkinson-Phillips, Olga Bezhanova, Melissa Burchard, Mateusz Chaberski, Candace Couse, Tracy Crowe Morey, Marwa Sayed Hanafy, Rachel Joy, Emma Kelly, Timothy Long, Elizabeth Matheson, Antonio Prado del Santo, Christine Ramsay, Cristina Santos and Adriana Spahr.
Contents
List of Illustration
Notes on Contributors
Introduction: Testimony and Trauma: Engaging Common Ground
Tracy Crowe Morey, Cristina Santos, and Adriana Spahr
PART 1
Testimony, Time (In)Memorial
1 Material Testimony: Memorials Bearing Witness to Experiences of Loss and Trauma
Alison Atkinson-Phillips
2 Spanish Republicans in the Holocaust: Historical Rights and Testimonial Literature
Antonio Prado del Santo
3 Writing Spain's Fraught History: Testimony or Fiction?
Olga Bezhanova
PART 2
Suffer the Children
4 When the Personal Becomes Collective: a Mother's Re-Membering of a Disappeared Daughter in Madre de Mendoza
Cristina Santos
5 Growing Up in Pain: Children of the Victims of the Argentinean Dictatorship
Adriana Spahr
6 Non-Standard Witness: Lessons from Working with/ for Traumatized Children
Melissa Burchard
PART 3
Scripts and Performances of Testimony
7 Trauma and Healing in Izzeldin Abuelaish's I Shall Not Hate
Marwa Sayed Hanafy
8 The 'Piercing Breach of a Border': Irish Cinema as a Mediator of Modern Trauma
Emma Kelly
9 Performing Witnesses: Frameworks of Memory in Contemporary Performing Arts
Mateusz Chaberski
PART 4
Testimonial Embodiments
10 Sick: Negotiating Body Trauma through Visual Art Practice
Candace Couse
11 Very Becoming: Transforming Our Settler Selves in Occupied Australia
Rachel Joy
PART 5
The Curatorial Turn: Objects, Space, and Frames of Testimony
12 Haunted Geographies in Atom Egoyan's Calendar and Return to the Flock
Christine Ramsay
13 Atom Egoyan's Auroras: a Chorus of Witnesses
Timothy Long
14 Immersive Space and the Place of the Witness
Elizabeth Matheson
Index
