Introduction: we need to talk about trauma / Magda Stroinska, Kate Szymanski & Vikki Cecchetto -- France in shock from its revolution / Xavier Martin -- The functions of humour and laughter in narrating trauma in German : literature of the first world war / Jakub Kazecki -- The human body in nazi concentration camps : the case of Stanislaw Grzesiuk / Bozena Karwowska -- Traumatic silences in contemporary Australian war fiction / Tessa Lunney -- A trauma in hiding : the case of Jules Marchal / Lieve Spaas -- The trauma of culture shock / Barbara Chettle -- Exploring the edge of trauma : the differing dynamics of tragedy and sublime / Kebedech Tekleab -- Creating a habitable everyday in Estonian women's diaries of the repressions of the Stalinist regime / Leena Kurvet-Käosaar -- Trauma in words : comparison of the coverage in le Devoir and the Toronto Star of the 2010 Haitian earthquake / Irena Radievic -- "Singular events" context -- Metaphors we li(v)e by : disease as a conceptual metaphor for sexual assault / Magda Stroinska -- Metamorphosing difficulties : the portrayal of trauma in autobiographical comics / Sarah Lightman -- Having a relative with mental illness : beyond the traditional definition of trauma / Avi Saunders & Kate Szymanski -- Theoretical context -- Breaking the silence : reevaluating what makes an experience a trauma / Avigail Gordon & Kate Szymanski -- Trauma narrative : recovery and posttraumatic growth : a clinical perspective / Kate Szymanski & Nancy Rosenfeld
