{"product_id":"the-trauma-mantras-a-memoir-in-prose-poems-hardcover","title":"The Trauma Mantras: A Memoir in Prose Poems - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAdrie Kusserow\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eYusef Komunyakaa\u003c\/b\u003e (Foreword by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Trauma Mantras\u003c\/i\u003e is a memoir by medical anthropologist, teacher, and writer Adrie Kusserow, who has worked with refugees and humanitarian projects in Bhutan, Nepal, India, Uganda, South Sudan, and the United States. It is a memoir of witness and humility and, ultimately, a way to critique and gain a fresh perspective on Western approaches to the self, suffering, and healing. Kusserow interrogates the way American culture prizes a psychologized individualism, the supposed fragility of the self. In relentlessly questioning the Western tribe of individualism with a hunger to bust out of such narrow confines, she hints at the importance of \u003ci\u003ewidening\u003c\/i\u003e the American self. As she delves into humanity's numerous social and political ills, she does not let herself off the hook, reflecting rigorously on her own position and commitments. Kusserow travels the world in these poetic meditations, exploring the desperate fictions that \"East\" and \"West\" still cling to about each other, the stories we tell about ourselves and obsessively weave from the dominant cultural meanings that surround us.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eAdrie Kusserow is Professor of Anthropology at St. Michael's College and the author of \u003ci\u003eRefuge\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHunting Down the Monk\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eAmerican Individualisms\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Yusef Komunyakaa is Professor of English at New York University and a Pulitzer Prize-winning author of numerous books of poetry.\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 176\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.56 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 09, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47371425743026,"sku":"9781478020844","price":153.83,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/6c98d1b417b440d78ca829317d740b2e_b973ca45-df8f-493f-bced-a4b2ce1f99e7.webp?v=1777628714","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/the-trauma-mantras-a-memoir-in-prose-poems-hardcover","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}