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Of Performance and the Persistent Temporality of Trauma: Memory, Art, and Visions

My own experience of violence suggests that trauma is forever a painful feeling, a bodily and mental pain that resurfaces unexpectedly. This traumatic experience is a form of obdurate history waiting to be articulated and written about, but it refuses to be written about in the past tense without the unpredictable — and persistent — intervention of the present tense. Interestingly, the experience I had during and after the performance of my text at the “War Capital Trauma” conference resonates with what Raymond Williams advocates in his seminal essay, “Structures of Feeling,”