A01=Loredana Bercuci
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Author_Loredana Bercuci
autobiographical subject
autobiographical video game
autodocumentary
automatic-update
Category1=Non-Fiction
Category=DS
Category=JBCC1
Category=JBCT
Category=JFCA
Category=JFD
COP=United States
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graphic memoir
Language_English
memoir boom
memory-image
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Price_€50 to €100
PS=Forthcoming
softlaunch
transmedia narratology
trauma remediation
Product details
- ISBN 9781666967494
- Weight: 494g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 07 Nov 2024
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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Trauma and the Mediated Self: Contemporary Life Writing Across Media examines twenty-first century representations of trauma in life writing across several media, including printed-word memoir, graphic memoir, autodocumentary, and autobiographical video games. Through careful analysis, Loredana Bercuci uncovers the medium-specific demands for the representation of trauma in life writing in the context of the contemporary memoir boom. She broadly argues that for a trauma representation to be considered successful, each medium adapts its own means to adhere to a certain definition of trauma and in this manner a particular piece of life writing is accepted as a successful and reliable representation of trauma. The representation of trauma in these autobiographical media has created a new trauma aesthetics that is defined by a cautious (re)engagement with the real.
Loredana Bercuci is assistant professor in the Department of Modern Languages at the West University of Timi?oara.
