[Linganth] Adrie Kusserow's new book

[Ilana Gershon]

Dear Colleagues,
Today on the CaMP blog,  Adrie Kusserow discusses her book, *The Trauma
Mantras: A Memoir in Prose Poems *with Sofía Cifuentes Contador.

www.campanthropology.org

Best,
Ilana

Press blurb: *The Trauma Mantras* is a memoir by medical anthropologist,
teacher, and writer Adrie Kusserow, who has worked with refugees and
humanitarian projects in Bhutan, Nepal, India, Uganda, South Sudan, and the
United States. It is a memoir of witness and humility and, ultimately, a
way to critique and gain a fresh perspective on Western approaches to the
self, suffering, and healing. Kusserow interrogates the way American
culture prizes a psychologized individualism, the supposed fragility of the
self. In relentlessly questioning the Western tribe of individualism with a
hunger to bust out of such narrow confines, she hints at the importance of
*widening* the American self. As she delves into humanity’s numerous social
and political ills, she does not let herself off the hook, reflecting
rigorously on her own position and commitments. Kusserow travels the world
in these poetic meditations, exploring the desperate fictions that “East”
and “West” still cling to about each other, the stories we tell about
ourselves and obsessively weave from the dominant cultural meanings that
surround us.
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