TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2001//
TI  - 'Eloquent chaos' in the oral discourse of killing fields survivors: an exploration of atrocity and narrativization
JO  - Culture, medicine, and psychiatry
A1  - Uehara, E. S.
A1  - Farris, M.
A1  - Morelli, P. T.
A1  - Ishisaka, A.
SP  - 29
EP  - 61
VL  - 25
IS  - 1
N2  - If "narrative" implies a form of discourse in which sequenced events are meaningfully connected, an "anti-narrative" is a chaotic discourse form "of time without sequence, telling without mediation, and speaking about oneself without being fully able to reflect on oneself" (Frank 1995: 98). This paper examines narratives and anti-narratives in the oral discourses of survivors of the Cambodian killing fields. Through an extended analysis of two cases, we demonstrate the internal logic and "eloquence" of anti-narratives--i.e., the ways in which anti-narrative patterns vividly express and reveal a survivor's complex and continuing experience of atrocity.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0165-005X
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -