This article explores the social history of the Birmingham Pub Bombings (UK). In addition to individual losses and injuries, the bombings triggered widespread anti-Irish prejudice and violence, wrongful convictions and community tensions. The resultant disharmony within the city of Birmingham lasted for generations, while the voices of communities not directly involved in the events of November 21, 1974, have mostly remained silent. This article offers new lessons in the historical construction of trauma and how we make sense of traumatic events. Using original oral history interviews and witness seminars, it explores the layers of trauma that have been transmitted socially, politically, spatially, and intergenerationally. It begins by first focusing on the temporal and spatial dimensions of this local history, which reveal how the reconfiguring of temporalities can be used to locate an inner voice for British postwar, urban, social history. Then, it contextualizes individual and collective experiences of the Birmingham Pub Bombings in order to reveal the ways in which traumatic experiences are placed within a narrative form that orders and facilitates the integration of past trauma within the present. As such, we argue that the poetics of narrativity—or the narrative framing of how and when trauma memories are told, heard, and negotiated—has the potential to pull together a richer, more inclusive, commu-

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叙事诗学：理解伯明翰酒吧爆炸案 40 年后的创伤、时间性和空间性

本文探讨了伯明翰酒吧爆炸案（英国）的社会历史。除了个人损失和伤害外，爆炸事件还引发了广泛的反爱尔兰偏见和暴力、错误定罪和社区紧张局势。由此产生的伯明翰市内的不和谐持续了几代人，而没有直接参与 1974 年 11 月 21 日事件的社区的声音大多保持沉默。这篇文章为创伤的历史建构以及我们如何理解创伤事件提供了新的教训。使用原始的口述历史访谈和证人研讨会，它探索了在社会、政治、空间和代际传播的创伤层次。它首先关注当地历史的时间和空间维度，这揭示了如何利用时间的重新配置来定位英国战后、城市和社会历史的内在声音。然后，它将伯明翰酒吧爆炸案的个人和集体经历置于语境中，以揭示将创伤经历置于叙事形式中的方式，该叙事形式对过去的创伤与现在的整合进行排序和促进。因此，我们认为叙事诗学——或关于如何以及何时讲述、聆听和协商创伤记忆的叙事框架——有可能将一个更丰富、更包容、更通 它将伯明翰酒吧爆炸案的个人和集体经历置于语境中，以揭示创伤经历被置于叙事形式中的方式，该叙事形式命令和促进过去的创伤与现在的整合。因此，我们认为叙事诗学——或关于如何以及何时讲述、聆听和协商创伤记忆的叙事框架——有可能将一个更丰富、更包容、更通 它将伯明翰酒吧爆炸案的个人和集体经历置于语境中，以揭示创伤经历被置于叙事形式中的方式，该叙事形式命令并促进过去的创伤与现在的整合。因此，我们认为叙事诗学——或关于如何以及何时讲述、聆听和协商创伤记忆的叙事框架——有可能将一个更丰富、更包容、更通