TY  - BOOK
AU  - Brison,Susan J.
TI  - Aftermath: Violence and the Remaking of a Self 
SN  - 9780691016191
AV  - HV6558 
U1  - 362.88 
PY  - 2011///]
CY  - Princeton, NJ : 
PB  - Princeton University Press, 
KW  - Rape victims
KW  - Psychology
KW  - Traumatic shock
KW  - Victims of violent crimes
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Alumnus
KW  - Anecdote
KW  - Anger
KW  - Annette Baier
KW  - Anxiety
KW  - Attempt
KW  - Audre Lorde
KW  - Behavior
KW  - Categorization
KW  - Cathy
KW  - Collective trauma
KW  - Consciousness
KW  - Consent
KW  - Contact lens
KW  - Controversy
KW  - Crime of passion
KW  - Critique
KW  - Cultural feminism
KW  - Cultural memory
KW  - Dartmouth College
KW  - Derek Parfit
KW  - Dichotomy
KW  - Disability
KW  - Disease
KW  - Dualism (philosophy of mind)
KW  - Effects and aftermath of rape
KW  - Emeritus
KW  - Ethics
KW  - Explanation
KW  - Feeling
KW  - Feminist ethics
KW  - Feminist theory
KW  - First-person narrative
KW  - Forgetting
KW  - Hate crime
KW  - Hatred
KW  - Hypervigilance
KW  - I Wish (manhwa)
KW  - Incest
KW  - Insanity defense
KW  - Irony
KW  - Lawyer
KW  - Levite
KW  - Literature
KW  - Marianne Hirsch
KW  - Marquis de Sade
KW  - Methodology
KW  - Milan Kundera
KW  - Mother
KW  - Murder
KW  - My Child
KW  - Narrative
KW  - Neurosis
KW  - Performative utterance
KW  - Personal identity
KW  - Philosopher
KW  - Philosophical analysis
KW  - Philosophy of law
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Police officer
KW  - Political philosophy
KW  - Pornography
KW  - Post-structuralism
KW  - Posttraumatic stress disorder
KW  - Prevalence
KW  - Private collection
KW  - Psychological trauma
KW  - Psychologist
KW  - Racism
KW  - Rape
KW  - Sadness
KW  - Self-concept
KW  - Self-esteem
KW  - Sexual assault
KW  - Sexual violence
KW  - Shame
KW  - Simone de Beauvoir
KW  - Slavery
KW  - Sleep disorder
KW  - Snuff film
KW  - Startle response
KW  - Suffering
KW  - Support group
KW  - Susan Brownmiller
KW  - Symptom
KW  - The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
KW  - The Other Hand
KW  - The Telling
KW  - Theft
KW  - Theory
KW  - Thought experiment
KW  - Torture
KW  - Unconsciousness
KW  - Untold Story (novel)
KW  - Violence Against Women Act
KW  - Violence against women
KW  - Violence
KW  - Virginia Held
KW  - William Fontaine
KW  - Writing
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; Surviving Sexual Violence. CHAPTER ONE --; On the Personal as Philosophical. CHAPTER TWO --; Outliving Oneself. CHAPTER THREE --; Acts of Memory. CHAPTER FOUR --; The Politics of Forgetting. CHAPTER FIVE --; Retellings. CHAPTER SIX --; Afterword --; Acknowledgments --; Notes --; Bibliography --; Index --; Paintings; restricted access
N2  - On July 4, 1990, while on a morning walk in southern France, Susan Brison was attacked from behind, severely beaten, sexually assaulted, strangled to unconsciousness, and left for dead. She survived, but her world was destroyed. Her training as a philosopher could not help her make sense of things, and many of her fundamental assumptions about the nature of the self and the world it inhabits were shattered. At once a personal narrative of recovery and a philosophical exploration of trauma, this book examines the undoing and remaking of a self in the aftermath of violence. It explores, from an interdisciplinary perspective, memory and truth, identity and self, autonomy and community. It offers imaginative access to the experience of a rape survivor as well as a reflective critique of a society in which women routinely fear and suffer sexual violence. As Brison observes, trauma disrupts memory, severs past from present, and incapacitates the ability to envision a future. Yet the act of bearing witness, she argues, facilitates recovery by integrating the experience into the survivor's life's story. She also argues for the importance, as well as the hazards, of using first-person narratives in understanding not only trauma, but also larger philosophical questions about what we can know and how we should live. Bravely and beautifully written, Aftermath is that rare book that is an illustration of its own arguments
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400841493
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781400841493
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781400841493/original
ER  -