Narrating Wartime Rapes and Trauma in a Woman in Berlin

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Not Supposed to be Born?

“…CBOWR is a subcategory of children born of war (CBOW), and according to researchers studying the intergenerational impact of sexual violence against women in conflict zones, it needs special consideration. While both categories of children face stigmatization and rejection (Carpenter 2007(Carpenter , 2010Lee 2017;Lee, Glaesmer, and Stelzl-Marx 2021;Lee and Mochmann 2015;Satjukow and Gries 2015;Stelzl-Marx and Satjukow 2015), CBOWR face additional challenges given their violent conception (Glaesmer 2015;Roupetz, Delic, and Glaesmer 2021;Schwartz 2020). In the words of Virginia M. Bouvier: "There is a tremendous knowledge gap surrounding the issue of children born of conflict-related sexual violence, and even less public policy to address the needs of these children" (Bouvier 2016, 8).…”

“…The authors of this article respect the author's wish to refer to herself as Anonymous although a German journalist made her alleged identity public following the posthumous new edition of the diary(Schwartz 2015).…”

Creating a “Vocabulary of Rupture” Following WWII Sexual Violence in Hungarian Women Writers’ Narratives

“…2012: 90). This splitting of the personality often found in rape narratives has been interpreted as a way of protecting the self, as minimizing the impact of trauma (see Schwartz 2015). We can also see it as part of creating a "vocabulary of rupture," of a rupture whose effects on both body and mind of the raped woman are profound.…”