“Allegiance,” as I’m seeing it, is about a deeper affinity that mere alliance, and it’s a bit different from relationship. Relationship would be that your life (or fate, or destiny) is tied to the life of another. A child has a relationship with parents, a CEO has a relationship with the corporation. But relationship does…
Trauma is by no means “purely rhetorical” – there is the documented fact of experiences that erode the efficacy of memory. But some people, I think, see trauma only as rhetorical. They imitate the narratives of trauma survivors through fabricated or hyperbolized autobiography. I don’t know whether these acts are an indication of a complete lack…
I need to check the timeline, but it appears that Williams’s coverage of Katrina and Iraq – including the “misremembered” parts – helped him get the promotion to anchor. Thus, this personal commodification of trauma “paid off” for him. But how was this possible? His exaggerations of the French Quarter during Katrina are so far…
LaCapra describes the difference between “writing trauma” and “writing about trauma” (186). He raises a question about the film Shoah, asking whether Polish resistance to the Hocaust was excluded because the speaker was too detached and not actively reliving his experiences (“writing about trauma”), or if instead the documentary can now be critiqued for failing…
