FEM 2111 Study Guide - Final Guide: Collective Trauma, Transformative Justice, Hijab

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Women's Studies
• Course: FEM 2111
• Professor: Shoshana Magnet

Document Summary

Fem 2111 exam questions: what role does art play for lynda barry and majane satrapi in thinking about trauma? (/2) Barry makes a visual argument for the fact that comics can do the serious work of investigating traumatic memory, and that art as a practice can also help to heal us from its wounds. Barry is talking about the ordinariness of trauma and asks us to write about the small moments of our lives. It helps our memories not to live only at the back of the mind, half-suppressed and half- remembered. Satrapi makes the link between individual and collective trauma. She says that whether trauma happens in the private sphere of the home or the public sphere of the state should not affect how we understand these graphic narratives as political-both are in different ways. Satrapi discusses persepolis which is: about the ethical, visual, and verbal practice of not forgetting .