Cultural trauma appears when a collectivity of human beings suffers sudden and rapid social change,touching the core of their inner sense.This paper analyzes cultural trauma in the precise time in that novel according...Cultural trauma appears when a collectivity of human beings suffers sudden and rapid social change,touching the core of their inner sense.This paper analyzes cultural trauma in the precise time in that novel according to a classification of the Cultural Trauma theory and presents various strategies to cope with trauma.The whole process of cultural trauma reveals the complicated background then.Confronting ethic problems in displacement,tackling pertinent issues of the globalizing world and struggling with the lingering colonial effects of Britain in India,the novel depicts a special historical scene,implying the ways of living and enlightening today’s loss during the period of inheritance.展开更多
This pilot study on humor in cultural trauma uses innovative digital methodologies in speech recognition and social media analysis via Postman and Python in the Twitter API v2 to propose different forms to gather and ...This pilot study on humor in cultural trauma uses innovative digital methodologies in speech recognition and social media analysis via Postman and Python in the Twitter API v2 to propose different forms to gather and analyze empirical data on semiotics and humor to be used in a broader context.The given example of humorous instances on the cultural trauma of 9/11 in the fictional sitcom Rick and Morty is limited but corroborated by a second example that is structurally different from the first:humor about 9/11 in stand-up comedy by Louis C.K.Based on the data,humor in trauma seems to undergo a 5-phase-typology related to the Kübler-Ross model of grief,which is mended by the(digital)participation of society.Society,we argue,both shapes the discourse on humor in trauma and overcomes the traumatic effects through humorous discourse.展开更多
Kazuo Ishiguro,a renowned Japanese-British writer,is the winner of the Novel Prize for Literature.The novel Never Let Me Go is a science fiction about human cloning and tells the tragic experience of cloning groups.Ka...Kazuo Ishiguro,a renowned Japanese-British writer,is the winner of the Novel Prize for Literature.The novel Never Let Me Go is a science fiction about human cloning and tells the tragic experience of cloning groups.Kathy,a narrator and protagonist in the story,wrote memories of individual clones and collective clones trauma.She not only witnessed various individual traumas of herself and her friends,but also expressed the cultural trauma of the clones through writing.From the perspective of trauma theory,it can be found that traumatic memories can vent and relieve personal pain,construct collective cultural trauma,and then convey individual’s responsibility for the collective disaster.展开更多
文摘Cultural trauma appears when a collectivity of human beings suffers sudden and rapid social change,touching the core of their inner sense.This paper analyzes cultural trauma in the precise time in that novel according to a classification of the Cultural Trauma theory and presents various strategies to cope with trauma.The whole process of cultural trauma reveals the complicated background then.Confronting ethic problems in displacement,tackling pertinent issues of the globalizing world and struggling with the lingering colonial effects of Britain in India,the novel depicts a special historical scene,implying the ways of living and enlightening today’s loss during the period of inheritance.
文摘This pilot study on humor in cultural trauma uses innovative digital methodologies in speech recognition and social media analysis via Postman and Python in the Twitter API v2 to propose different forms to gather and analyze empirical data on semiotics and humor to be used in a broader context.The given example of humorous instances on the cultural trauma of 9/11 in the fictional sitcom Rick and Morty is limited but corroborated by a second example that is structurally different from the first:humor about 9/11 in stand-up comedy by Louis C.K.Based on the data,humor in trauma seems to undergo a 5-phase-typology related to the Kübler-Ross model of grief,which is mended by the(digital)participation of society.Society,we argue,both shapes the discourse on humor in trauma and overcomes the traumatic effects through humorous discourse.
文摘Kazuo Ishiguro,a renowned Japanese-British writer,is the winner of the Novel Prize for Literature.The novel Never Let Me Go is a science fiction about human cloning and tells the tragic experience of cloning groups.Kathy,a narrator and protagonist in the story,wrote memories of individual clones and collective clones trauma.She not only witnessed various individual traumas of herself and her friends,but also expressed the cultural trauma of the clones through writing.From the perspective of trauma theory,it can be found that traumatic memories can vent and relieve personal pain,construct collective cultural trauma,and then convey individual’s responsibility for the collective disaster.
