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Keywords:
* Collective experience and trauma defined
* Emotions and control
* Boston Red Sox
* Vienna post-WWII
* 9/11 novelists and filmmakers
* Effect on everyday culture
* Architectural uncanny
* Considerations for your own work
Considerations for your work:
* Consider how the collective experiences affect your protagonist or different characters.
* Maybe there’s a collective experience within the fiction – how does this impact the characters?
* Also think about things like creating mood from an omniscient narrator point of view.
* What is the news/media narrative in relation to the collective experience? Is this something you want your book to question or reinforce?
Feel free to share your related work or recommendations in the comments.
Texts:
* Collective Experience defined
* BALAEV, MICHELLE. “Trends in Literary Trauma Theory.” Mosaic: An Interdisciplinary Critical Journal 41, no. 2 (2008): 149–66. http://www.jstor.org/stable/44029500.
* Eyerman, Ron. “Social Theory and Trauma.” Acta Sociologica 56, no. 1 (2013): 41–53. http://www.jstor.org/stable/23525660.
* Carrie Louise Sheffield. “Native American Hip-Hop and Historical Trauma: Surviving and Healing Trauma on the ‘Rez.’” Studies in American Indian Literatures 23, no. 3 (2011): 94–110. https://doi.org/10.5250/studamerindilite.23.3.0094.
* Radstone, Susannah. “Trauma Theory: Contexts, Politics, Ethics.” Paragraph 30, no. 1 (2007): 9–29. http://www.jstor.org/stable/43152697.
* https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/austria-plans-tighten-law-banning-use-nazi-symbols-2022-11-14/
* https://www.dw.com/en/should-the-hitler-balcony-in-vienna-be-open-to-the-public/a-56887522
* Immigrant imaginaries in the filmic apartment ellipsis : a study of New York and Hong Kong
* Column McCann: Let the Great World Spin
* Man on Wire 2008 (film)
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