From Fiction to Gallows Humour: How Chernobyl Survivors are still Coping with Trauma

Citation

Lindsay S (2016) From Fiction to Gallows Humour: How Chernobyl Survivors are still Coping with Trauma. The Conversation. 25.04.2016. http://theconversation.com/from-fiction-to-gallows-humour-how-chernobyl-survivors-are-still-coping-with-trauma-57923

Abstract
A brief study of Chernobyl survivors' unique methods of coping with psychological trauma thirty years after the disaster, and an overview of the adaptation of these struggles in Chernobyl-set fiction.  Article is available from The Conversation website: http://theconversation.com/from-fiction-to-gallows-humour-how-chernobyl-survivors-are-still-coping-with-trauma-57923.

Keywords
Chernobyl disaster; psychological trauma; literary trauma; memory studies; Contemporary Gothic; horror fiction; Gothic videogaming

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