Oranges and Sunshine

This paper will rely on some well-known theories on trauma, memory and ethics to study how Jim Loach’s debut film Oranges and Sunshine (2010) testifies to the traumatic deportation of up to 150,000 British children to distant parts of the Empire, mainly Australia, until 1970. Oranges and Sunshine was based on Margaret Humphreys’ moving memoir, originally entitled Empty Cradles (1994) but later re-titled Oranges and Sunshine after Loach’s film. What these two texts basically claim is the need to recover historic memory through heart-breaking acts of remembrance, which can alone denounce the atrocities that were concomitant with the colonial enterprise and pave the way for disclosing and working through individual and collective traumas

Archaeology · Art history · Colonialism · Deportation · Immigration · Media studies · Memoir · Political science · Psychoanalysis · Sociology · Gender, Security, and Conflict · History · Law · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration · Psychology · Torture, Ethics, and Law

• Trauma

  Cathy Caruth•Trauma•1995

  Incluir item

• Toward a Theory of Cultural Trauma

  Jeffrey C Alexander•Cultural Trauma and Collective…•2004

  Incluir item

• The State of Exception

  Open Access•Giorgio Agamben•Politics, Metaphysics, and Death•2005

  Incluir item

• The Future of Trauma Theory

  Stephen Durrant, Gert Buelens et al.•Future of Trauma Theory•2013

  Incluir item

• Cultural Trauma and Collective Identity

  Jeffrey C Alexander, Ron Eyerman et al.•Cultural Trauma and Collective…•2004

  Incluir item

• The Neighbor

  Slavoj Žižek, Eric L Santner et al.•The neighbor•2005

  Incluir item

• The role of shame in posttraumatic stress disorder

  Open Access•Ashwin Budden•Social Science & Medicine•2009

  Incluir item

• Writing History, Writing Trauma

  Debarati Sanyal, Dominick Lacapra•SubStance•2002

  Incluir item