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Reviews: Arleen Ionescu and Maria Margaroni, eds. Arts of Healing: Cultural Narratives of Trauma. London: Rowman and Littlefield, 2020. Pp. 320. ISBN 978-1-78661-097-3 (paperback); 978-1-78661-098-0 (electronic)

Reviews: Arleen Ionescu and Maria Margaroni, eds. Arts of Healing: Cultural Narratives of Trauma.... American, British and Canadian Studies 184 REVIEWS 10.2478/abcsj-2022-0023 Arleen Ionescu and Maria Margaroni, eds. Arts of Healing: Cultural Narratives of Trauma. London: Rowman and Littlefield, 2020. Pp. 320. ISBN 978-1-78661-097-3 (paperback); 978-1-78661-098-0 (electronic). Edited by two scholars with a strong background in modernist literature, contemporary critical theory and philosophy, this volume is the outcome of a conference organized at the University of Ploiești, Romania, in 2016. It brings together a collection of essays whose major concern is to interrogate how healing is possible in a post-Holocaust world “where individual and collective traumas have become much of an everyday occurrence” (x). In doing so, the contributors unshackle the concept of trauma from the classic, if not overgeneralized, Freudian psychoanalytic methodology, according to which healing is a difficult process because traumatic experience is re-enacted in the form of flashbacks, nightmares, or compulsive repetitive behaviour, and propose various “artful” remedies inspired by the humanities’ unstinting power to create cultural narratives of healing. This is one of the strengths of the collection, for the topics under scrutiny are tackled in a genuine interdisciplinary manner, blending critical and cultural theory with psychoanalysis, philosophy, visual arts, film studies, gender and queer studies. More importantly, the http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png American British and Canadian Studies Journal de Gruyter

Reviews: Arleen Ionescu and Maria Margaroni, eds. Arts of Healing: Cultural Narratives of Trauma. London: Rowman and Littlefield, 2020. Pp. 320. ISBN 978-1-78661-097-3 (paperback); 978-1-78661-098-0 (electronic)

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American, British and Canadian Studies 184 REVIEWS 10.2478/abcsj-2022-0023 Arleen Ionescu and Maria Margaroni, eds. Arts of Healing: Cultural Narratives of Trauma. London: Rowman and Littlefield, 2020. Pp. 320. ISBN 978-1-78661-097-3 (paperback); 978-1-78661-098-0 (electronic). Edited by two scholars with a strong background in modernist literature, contemporary critical theory and philosophy, this volume is the outcome of a conference organized at the University of Ploiești, Romania, in 2016. It brings together a collection of essays whose major concern is to interrogate how healing is possible in a post-Holocaust world “where individual and collective traumas have become much of an everyday occurrence” (x). In doing so, the contributors unshackle the concept of trauma from the classic, if not overgeneralized, Freudian psychoanalytic methodology, according to which healing is a difficult process because traumatic experience is re-enacted in the form of flashbacks, nightmares, or compulsive repetitive behaviour, and propose various “artful” remedies inspired by the humanities’ unstinting power to create cultural narratives of healing. This is one of the strengths of the collection, for the topics under scrutiny are tackled in a genuine interdisciplinary manner, blending critical and cultural theory with psychoanalysis, philosophy, visual arts, film studies, gender and queer studies. More importantly, the

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