TY - JOUR

T1 - Introduction

T2 - From conceptual debates to practical applications

AU - Troitskiy, Sergey

AU - Kurvet-Käosaar, Leena

AU - Laineste, Liisi

N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2021, FB and Media Group of Estonian Literary Museum. All rights reserved.

PY - 2021/8/1

Y1 - 2021/8/1

N2 - Bringing into focus the ways of how to approach trauma instead of defining the object of research is becoming increasingly important. This also in-dicates that the range of approaches to trauma that informs cultural inquiry is widening, and is moving away from one singular paradigm posited as universal. Trauma scholars have demonstrated, on the one hand, the importance of particular experiences, specific cases, individual features of experiencing, remembering, and narrating trauma. On the other hand, they have pointed out the impact of cultural “scripts” shaped by broader cultural understandings and social and cultural regulations and preferences that shape the possibilities of the representation of traumatic experience. This special issue seeks to recognize and negotiate the individual and collective dimensions of trauma as well as their interwovenness, with a focus on the (post)-Soviet and Eastern European experience. It does so by addressing the generalizing theoretical models as well as the practical, material, and experimental aspects of trauma. Thus, it seeks to disentangle and clarify the links between the collective and the individual, the theoretical and the practical, and finally, the universal and the specific, the global and the local.

AB - Bringing into focus the ways of how to approach trauma instead of defining the object of research is becoming increasingly important. This also in-dicates that the range of approaches to trauma that informs cultural inquiry is widening, and is moving away from one singular paradigm posited as universal. Trauma scholars have demonstrated, on the one hand, the importance of particular experiences, specific cases, individual features of experiencing, remembering, and narrating trauma. On the other hand, they have pointed out the impact of cultural “scripts” shaped by broader cultural understandings and social and cultural regulations and preferences that shape the possibilities of the representation of traumatic experience. This special issue seeks to recognize and negotiate the individual and collective dimensions of trauma as well as their interwovenness, with a focus on the (post)-Soviet and Eastern European experience. It does so by addressing the generalizing theoretical models as well as the practical, material, and experimental aspects of trauma. Thus, it seeks to disentangle and clarify the links between the collective and the individual, the theoretical and the practical, and finally, the universal and the specific, the global and the local.

KW - Collective trauma

KW - Cultural trauma

KW - Eastern Europe

KW - Individual trauma

KW - Post-Soviet

KW - Trauma studies

KW - individual trauma

KW - trauma studies

KW - post-Soviet

KW - MEMORY

KW - cultural trauma

KW - HOLOCAUST

KW - collective trauma

KW - TRAUMA

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U2 - 10.7592/FEJF2021.83.introduction

DO - 10.7592/FEJF2021.83.introduction

M3 - Article

AN - SCOPUS:85114236988

VL - 83

SP - 7

EP - 28

JO - Folklore (Estonia)

JF - Folklore (Estonia)

SN - 1406-0957

ER -