Witnessing Things A Response to Sue Grand
- 10 October 2003
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Studies in Gender and Sexuality
- Vol. 4 (4) , 353-362
- https://doi.org/10.1080/15240650409349233
Abstract
I respond to Sue Grand's “Unsexed and Ungendered Bodies: The Violated Self” from my position as a cultural critic, noting in particular how Grand's case history shows that historical trauma is made manifest in everyday sensory experience. I am particularly interested in Grand's suggestion that trauma produces a “thing-self” that must be witnessed in the psychoanalytic encounter. Exploring the implications of this insight for my own investigations of cultural responses to trauma, I focus on performances of the body in lesbian public culture, ranging from the writings of Dorothy Allison, Joan Nestle, and Shani Mootoo to performances by punk rock band Tribe 8.Keywords
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