The Dig: Combat Trauma w/ Nadia Abu El-Haj
Jacobin Radio
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Trauma and Trauma in the 1990s
The most prominent cultural figure of the victim, I mean, of the traumatized subject is much, has really moved away from the Vietnam figure. The 90s are a moment where you could talk about it as a cultural common sense and what I refer to as a trauma imaginary. There's such a deep sense at this point in American culture that trauma is both ubiquitous and tethered to victimhood.
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