recommendation Johan galtung
This recommendation was issued after a meeting in Washington, in November 2009
The recommendation is written for all WCC documents The recommendation is written for all WCC documents
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Understanding Trauma & the Rhetoric of Recovery: A Discourse Analysis of Virtual Healing Journals of Child Sexual Abuse Survivors
Thompson, R. (2004). Understanding Trauma & the Rhetoric of Recovery: A Discourse Analysis of Virtual Healing Journals of Child Sexual Abuse Survivors. JAC: A Journal of Composition Theory- Special Issue, Part 2: Trauma & Rhetoric, 24(3), 653-677.
As survivors engage in the discourse of telling through writing, they rely on a variety of genres to do this work.... more As survivors engage in the discourse of telling through writing, they rely on a variety of genres to do this work. These “typified” survivor narratives—as will be shown through discourse analysis—can be classifiable using Bazerman’s “systems of genre” (1994). Figure 1 illustrates how the healing journal participates in a “genre system” by way of the survivor narrative, along with other genres. The meta-narrative is the discourses of healing, which acts as the ideological framework that all healing discourse participates in. Within the meta-narrative, there are a variety of forums where survivors may go to perform their narratives. Books and websites allow survivors a forum to tell and share through texts. Once a survivor has chosen a place to tell, she must also chose a particular genre, such as poetry or the personal journal. Survivor narratives, therefore, mediate different literary forms in order to produce their own form of the survivor narrative. In this paper, I will examine the website (forum) and the personal journal (form) .
Judges 19: The Levite's Concubine - Constructing a Hermeneutics of Meaning for Victim/Survivors of Sexual Violence
Written for "Violence in the Bible" course in the spring of 2011 for Professor Carleen Mandolfo.
This paper offers a hermeneutics of meaning developed for victim/survivors of sexual violence in the parish context,... more This paper offers a hermeneutics of meaning developed for victim/survivors of sexual violence in the parish context, focused primarily on Judges 19 and its ramifications in Judges 20-21. I construct this hermeneutic through an exegesis of Judges 19, based in feminist commentaries that tease out entry points for discussion with victim survivors. Using an imagined community Bible study I construct a hermeneutic of meaning based in reconciliation and action using the work of pastoral theologians Carrie Doehring, Al Miles and Monica A. Coleman.

