Displacing the Anxieties of Our World
Discussing fictive spaces of literature, film, and video-gaming, this compilation bridges the imagined space between 17th-century utopia and 21st-century dystopia. It argues that the space of imagination offers a virtual battleground—and the possibility of triumph.
This book explores representation, transmission and circulation of memory, and how personal and collective memory shapes meanings, values, attitudes and identities. Its focus is on memory as malleable patterns and strategies that highlight the unity of memory and its diversity.
This collection studies trauma and psychoanalysis in women’s writing. It examines how literature helps to heal the wounded self, concentrating on how women explain the traumatic experiences of war, violence, or displacement and recover the voices buried by intense suffering.
This journal brings together current research on emotional intelligence, an important factor in the development of emotional competency and cognition. It represents a useful resource for teachers, researchers and students of adolescent psychology, and for mental health workers.