Encounters at the site of trauma

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Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 561-570

  Schmetterling, Astrid ^a  

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EID: 61249724694     PISSN: 09528822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09528820601010270     Document Type: Article

References (15)

1. On the history of conflict in Afghanistan in which both the Soviet Union and the USA were deeply implicated, see Pankaj Mishra, 'The Making of Afghanistan' and 'The Afghan Tragedy', in Striking Terror. America's New War, eds Robert B Silvers and Barbara Epstein, New York Review of Books, New York, 2002, pp 69-89 and 203-32.
2. Emmanuel Levinas, 'Ethics as First Philosophy', in The Levinas Reader, ed Seán Hand, Basil Black well, Oxford-Cambridge, MA, 1989, p 83.
3. See also Emmanuel Levinas, Totality and Infinity, trans Alphonso Lingis. Duquesne University Press, Pittsburgh, PA, 1969, pp 79-81.
4. Mieke Bal, 'Introduction', in Acts of Memory: Cultural Recall in the Present, eds Mieke Bal et al, Dartmouth College/University Press of New England, Hanover, NH-London, 1999, p IX
5. Cathy Caruth, Unclaimed Experience: Trauma, Narrative, and History, Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore-London, 1996, p 4.
6. For Freud's discussion of trauma see 'Beyond the Pleasure Principle' (1920), in The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Signmnd Frend, trans and eds James Strachey et al, Hogarth Press, London, 1953-74, vol 18, pp 3-64
7. Kalí Tal, 'Remembering Difference: Working Against Eurocentric Bias in Contemporary Scholarship on Trauma and Memory', digital addition to Worlds of Hurt: Reading the Literatures of Trauma, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge-New York-Melbourne, 1996, available at: http://www.freshmonsters.com/ kalital/Text/Worlds/Chap3.html, accessed 16 March 2005.I would like to thank Kosuke Tsumori for drawing my attention to Tal's work.
8. See also Laura S Brown, 'Not Outside the Range: One Feminist Perspective on Psychic Trauma', in Trauma: Explorations in Memory, ed Cathy Caruth, Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore-London, 1995, pp 100-112.
9. Jacques Derrida in Giovanna Borradori, Philosophy in a Time of Terror; Dialogues with Jürgen Habermas and Jacques Derrida, University of Chicago Press, Chicago-London, 2003, p 92
10. Judith Butler, Precarious Life: The Powers of Mourning and Violence, Verso, London-New York, 2004, p 77. A rise of racism, suspicion of Muslims and of racially motivated assaults on Muslims and other non-white immigrants has also been reported in Britain following the London attacks of July 2005. Furthermore, the introduction of new antiterrorism laws by the British government allows wider use of surveillance and other control orders, tightens immigration and deportation rules, and threatens to erode civil liberties.
11. The films were deemed 'stridently anti-American' by various publications including the leading magazine of the American entertainment industry, Variety. The British film journal Sight & Sound accused the whole project of 'virtually defining bad faith', of 'obscenely relativising atrocity' and of practising a 'book-keeping in oppression'. See Peter-Matthews, one day in September', Sight & Sound, January 2003, online, available at: http://www.bfi.org. uk/sightandsound/2003-01/review01-one-day-in-september.html, accessed 21 July 2005. The stifling of public debate after September 11, particularly in the United States, might be the reason for the project's limited distribution and exposure to the American and British public.
12. See also Emmanuel Levinas, Otherwise Than Being or Beyond Essence, trans Alphonso Lingis, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht-Boston-London, 1991, pp 99-129
13. Emmanuel Levinas, Ethics and infinity. Conversations with Philippe Memo, trans Richard A Cohen, Duquesne University Press, Pittsburgh, PA, 1985, pp 83-101.
14. For further responses to the events of September 11 see Slavoj Žižek, Welcome to the Desert of the Real: Five Essays on September 11 and related Dates, Verso, London-New York, 2002, Noam Chomsky, 9-11, Seven Stories Press, New York, 2002
15. Mary I. Dudziak, ed, September 11 in History: A Watershed Moment?, Duke University Press, Durham, NC-London, 2003.