Mending Wounds?: Healing, Working through, or Staying in Trauma: An Introduction

The articles selected for this volume address the aesthetic, ethical and political dimensions of null in southern African and North American contexts. Focusing on the material, corporeal embodiment of null in wounds and scars (and their psychosomatic analogues), these articles explore the role that these embodied traces of traumatic experiences plays in imagining--or, on the contrary, refusing--the healing and mending of lived traumas. To put it...