The Trauma Mantras: A Memoir in Prose Poems 1st Edition

The Trauma Mantras: A Memoir in Prose Poems 1st Edition – Ebook Instant Download/Delivery ISBN(s): 9781478025573,1478025573,9781478027706, 1478027703

Product details:

• ISBN-10: 1478027703
• ISBN-13: 9781478027706
• Author: Adrie Kusserow

The Trauma Mantras is a memoir by medical anthropologist, teacher, and writer Adrie Kusserow, who has worked with refugees and humanitarian projects in Bhutan, Nepal, India, Uganda, South Sudan, and the United States. It is a memoir of witness and humility and, ultimately, a way to critique and gain a fresh perspective on Western approaches to the self, suffering, and healing. Kusserow interrogates the way American culture prizes a psychologized individualism, the supposed fragility of the self. In relentlessly questioning the Western tribe of individualism with a hunger to bust out of such narrow confines, she hints at the importance of widening the American self. As she delves into humanity’s numerous social and political ills, she does not let herself off the hook, reflecting rigorously on her own position and commitments. Kusserow travels the world in these poetic meditations, exploring the desperate fictions that “East” and “West” still cling to about each other, the stories we tell about ourselves and obsessively weave from the dominant cultural meanings that surround us.

Table contents:

1. The Trouble with Stories: Indian Brothel Raid
2. The Sweaty Tribe
3. Revised Lonely Planet Guide to Holy Men
4. Patchwork Quilt for a Congolese Refugee
5. Trigger Fields
6. Quarantine Dreams
7. Getting the Story Just Right
8. Calla Lily, Condom
9. Western Psychonauts of the Postpartum Period

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