Transgenerational Transmission of Trauma in Iris Chang's Massacre Writings
As a second-generation survivor of the Nanjing Massacre,Iris Chang has inherited traumatic memories associated with the Nanjing Massacre and the broader wartime experiences from her fore-bears.Her non-fiction work,The Rape of Nanjing:The Forgotten Holocaust of World War Ⅱ,can be construed as her response to this transgenerational transmission of trauma.It concurrently functions as a mechanism for therapeutic convalescence and a deliberate endeavor to reconstruct her national and ethnic identity.Iris Chang's writings exemplify her valor and profound sense of duty in shouldering the substantial historical burden,coupled with her unwavering dedication to the rigorous pursuit of ethi-cal truth.Nevertheless,the transgenerational transmission of trauma and her writings pertaining to the Nanjing Massacre may harbor the inherent risk of subsuming her individual narrative,thus potentially fostering countertransference dynamics and deleteriously influencing her psychological well-being.
Iris ChangNanjing Massacrepostmemorytransgenerational transmission of traumapsycho-analysis
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