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   Trauma aesthetics in war documentaries about the Lord's Resistance Army in Uganda

   Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies • Authors: Okaka Opio Dokotum --- Literature Department, Uganda

   Memory studies scholar Cathy Caruth postulates that “history is precisely the way we are implicated in one another's trauma” (24). Given the violent and traumatic history of post-independence Uganda, especially the bloody, insane and protracted Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) insurgency...

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   Exploration of witnessing community violence and recent death on child behavioural outcomes

   Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Child & Adolescent Mental Health • Authors: Doneila McIntosh --- University of Minnesota, Allan D. Tate --- University of Georgia, Jerica M. Berge --- University of Minnesota,

   Background: Researchers are increasingly interested in understanding potentially traumatic experiences in children’s lives, such as witnessing community violence (WCV) and the recent death of a close family member or friend. These experiences can be distressing and have adverse effects on...

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