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A memoir of secondary trauma and the fragile work of healing

Thomas Trezise, a professor of French, was working on a book one morning in southern France when his wife, on a walk in the surrounding countryside, was sexually assaulted and nearly murdered. Here Trezise revisits the challenges of supporting a survivor when his own life was forever changed by the event. He closely examines secondary trauma, in which grief, fear, and anger carry no clear public recognition and little permission to speak. While drawing attention to the overlooked distress of those who stand by survivors, he questions his own masculinity in a world where the vast majority of sex crimes are committed by men. With emotional clarity and psychological insight, Beginning Again recounts the struggle to rebuild a life despite marital and social strains, professional turmoil, and the unfamiliarity of the French legal system. And it highlights how post-traumatic experience can change the very stories told to make sense of it, describing the author's joy at becoming a father and his discovery, through the culture of Martinique and Guadeloupe, of a renewed relationship with France.

A memoir of secondary trauma and the fragile work of healing

Thomas Trezise, a professor of French, was working on a book one morning in southern France when his wife, on a walk in the surrounding countryside, was sexually assaulted and nearly murdered. Here Trezise revisits the challenges of supporting a survivor when his own life was forever changed by the event. He closely examines secondary trauma, in which grief, fear, and anger carry no clear public recognition and little permission to speak. While drawing attention to the overlooked distress of those who stand by survivors, he questions his own masculinity in a world where the vast majority of sex crimes are committed by men. With emotional clarity and psychological insight, Beginning Again recounts the struggle to rebuild a life despite marital and social strains, professional turmoil, and the unfamiliarity of the French legal system. And it highlights how post-traumatic experience can change the very stories told to make sense of it, describing the author's joy at becoming a father and his discovery, through the culture of Martinique and Guadeloupe, of a renewed relationship with France.

Über den Autor
Thomas Trezise is Professor of French at Princeton University and author of Witnessing Witnessing: On the Reception of Holocaust Survivor Testimony.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2026
Genre: Biographien, Importe
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Buch
ISBN-13: 9780520422650
ISBN-10: 0520422651
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Trezise, Thomas
Hersteller: University of California Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 219 x 146 x 24 mm
Von/Mit: Thomas Trezise
Erscheinungsdatum: 27.10.2026
Gewicht: 0,484 kg
Artikel-ID: 138077077

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