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Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-17664-5 — Trauma and Literature Edited by J. Roger Kurtz Frontmatter More Information TRAUMA AND LITERATURE As a concept, “Trauma” has attracted a great deal of interest in literary studies. A key term in psychoanalytic approaches to literary study, trauma theory represents a critical approach that enables new modesofreadingandoflistening.Itisaleadingconceptofourtime, applicabletoindividuals,cultures,andnations.Thisbooktraceshow trauma theory has come to constitute a discrete but influential approach within literary criticism in recent decades. It offers an overview of the genesis and growth of literary trauma theory, recording the evolution of the concept of trauma in relation to literary studies. In twenty-one essays, covering the origins, develop- ment, and applications of trauma in literary studies, Trauma and Literature addresses the relevance and impact this concept has in thefield. © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-17664-5 — Trauma and Literature Edited by J. Roger Kurtz Frontmatter More Information CambridgeCriticalConceptsfocusesontheimportantideasanimatingtwentieth- andtwenty-first-centuryliterarystudies.Eachconceptaddressedinthisserieshas had a profound impact on literary studies, as well as on other disciplines, and already has a substantial critical bibliography surrounding it. This new series captures the dynamic critical energies transmitted across twentieth- and twenty- first-century literary landscapes: the concepts critics bring to reading, interpret- ation, and criticism. By addressing the origins, development, and application of these ideas, the books collate and clarify how these particular concepts have developed,whilealsofeaturingfreshinsightsandestablishingnewlinesofinquiry. CambridgeCriticalConceptsshiftsthefocusfromperiod-orgenre-basedliterary studies of a key term to the history and development of the terms themselves. Broadanddetailedcontributionscumulativelyidentifyandinvestigatethevarious historical and cultural catalysts that made these critical concepts emerge as established twenty-first-century landmarks in the discipline. The level will be suitable for advanced undergraduates, graduates, and specialists, as well as to those teaching outside their own research areas, and will have cross-disciplinary relevanceforsubjects such as history and philosophy. Published Titles Time and Literature Edited by . University ofOttawa Law and Literature Edited by The University of Western Australia Traumaand Literature Edited by. 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Roger Kurtz Frontmatter More Information Contents List of Contributors page ix Preface xv Introduction J.Roger Kurtz The Psychoanalytic Origins of Literary Trauma Studies Andrew Barnaby Modernity as the Cultural Crucible of Trauma Karolyn Steffens Deconstruction: Trauma Inscribed in Language Tom Toremans The Holocaust as the Ultimate Trauma Narrative Anna Hunter PTSD: A New Trauma Paradigm Lisa Diedrich Trauma and Narrative Joshua Pederson Problems in Representing Trauma Marinella Rodi-Risberg Trauma in Non-Western Contexts Irene Visser vii © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-17664-5 — Trauma and Literature Edited by J. Roger Kurtz Frontmatter More Information viii Contents Trauma and Memory Silke Arnold-de Simine Neuroscience, Narrative, and Emotion Regulation William P. Seeley Trauma in the Digital Age Allen Meek Feminist Interventions in Trauma Studies Jennifer Griffiths Healing and Post-Traumatic Growth Suzanne LaLonde Trauma and the Literature of War Gerd Bayer Trauma and Sexual Violence Emma V. Miller Postcolonial Trauma Jennifer Yusin Trauma and the Visual Arts Marie Kruger The Middle Passage and Race-Based Trauma Luminita M. Dragulescu The Trauma of Displacement Madelaine Hron Trauma, Truth, and Reconciliation Erica Still Terrorism: Trauma in the Excess of Affect Michael Richardson Conclusion: After Trauma Studies? J. Roger Kurtz Notes Bibliography Index © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-17664-5 — Trauma and Literature Edited by J. Roger Kurtz Frontmatter More Information Contributors - is Reader in the Department of Film, Media andCulturalStudiesatBirkbeck,UniversityofLondon.Herresearchis locatedattheinterfaceofmuseum,memory,andculturalstudieswitha specialinterestinculturalmemory,commemorationandidentitypolit- ics, difficult heritage, and remediation/transmediality. Her book Medi- ating Memory in the Museum: Trauma, Empathy, Nostalgia () probes the shifts in exhibiting practices associated with the transform- ation of history museums and heritage sites into “spaces of memory,” with a particular emphasis on the role of different media and art forms in that process. is Associate Professor of English at the University of Vermont. His research focuses primarily on English literature of the early modern period with attention to the overlap between literary representation and intellectual history. He is coauthor of Literate Experience: The Work of Knowing in Seventeenth-Century English Writing () and has published articles on Shakespeare, Milton, Marvell, Francis Bacon, and John Locke, among other writers. His more recent work on psychoanalysis includes his study of the roots of Freud’s thought, Coming Too Late: Reflections on Freud and Belatedness (). is Professor and Academic Director in the English Depart- ment at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, having previously taught at University of Toronto, Case Western Reserve University, and University of Wisconsin–Whitewater. He is the author of a book onJohnFowlesandofNovelHorizons:TheGenreMakingofRestoration Fiction (), as well as the coeditor of seven essay collections, most recently of Early Modern Constructions of Europe () and Holocaust CinemaintheTwenty-FirstCentury().Hehaspublishedessays on ix © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-17664-5 — Trauma and Literature Edited by J. Roger Kurtz Frontmatter More Information x Contributors postmodernandpostcolonialliteratureandfilm,earlymodernnarrative fiction, Holocaust Studies, and heavy metal. isProfessorofWomen’sGender,andSexualityStudiesat Stony Brook University. Her research and teaching interests are in critical medical studies, disability studies, feminist science studies, and interdisciplinary feminist and queer theories and methodologies. She is the author of Indirect Action: Schizophrenia, Epilepsy, AIDS, and the CourseofHealthActivism()andTreatments:Language,Politics,and the Culture of Illness (), and the coeditor of Feminist Time against Nation Time (, with Victoria Hesford). . conductsresearchattheinterfaceofcontem- porary American Literature, Black American Literature and Culture, race and trauma/psychoanalytical theories, memory, and life-writing studies. She has published articles on Salman Rushdie, William Faul- kner,JamesBaldwin,ArtSpiegelman,JohnEdgarWideman,Katherine Stockett, Philip Roth, Mikhail Bulgakov, and Boris Pasternak. She has also produced a DVD under the auspices of the National Endowment for the Humanities, “Dr. Wyatt Tee Walker: Civil Rights Activist and Advisor to the Late Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.” istheauthorofTraumaticPossessions:TheBodyand Memory in African American Women’s Writing and Performance () andhaspublishedworkinliterarytraumastudiesinObsidian:Literature of the African Diaspora, Studies in the Novel, Contemporary Women’s Writing, and Frontiers: A Journal of Women’s Studies. Her current book project focuses on representations of African American youth and the concept of “risk” in post–Civil Rights era performance and literature. SheisAssociateProfessorofEnglishatNewYorkInstituteofTechnol- ogy’s Manhattan campus. is Associate Professor in the Department of English and Film Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University. She is the author of Translating Pain: Immigrant Suffering in Literature and Culture (), as well as of various articles related to human rights issues, African literature, trauma, and violence, in such varied journals as Research in African Literatures, Peace Review, Journal of Literature and Trauma Studies, Forum in Modern Language Studies, Disability Studies Quarterly, French Literature Studies, and Slavonic and East Euro- pean Review. Hron’s current book project explores the literary, cine- matic, and cultural representations of postgenocide Rwanda. © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-17664-5 — Trauma and Literature Edited by J. Roger Kurtz Frontmatter More Information Contributors xi is Senior Lecturer in Academic Development at the University of Central Lancashire. Her research interests include literary representations of the Holocaust, and her essays have appeared in Modernism/Modernity, the European Journal of English Studies, and Holocaust Studies. is Associate Professor in the English Department at the University of Iowa, where she teaches courses in postcolonial and cultural studies. Her book Women’s Literature in Kenya and Uganda: The Trouble with Modernity () examines the relationship between modernity, gender, and the complex cultural and political networks in Eastern Africa. Her work has been published in Research in African Literatures, Postcolonial Text, Swahili Forum, and the Nairobi Journal of Literature.Hercurrentprojectstudiestherepresentationandcommodi- ficationoftraumaticmemoryinSouthAfricanvisualculture,including film and memorial sites. . is Professor of English and Head of the Department of English and Philosophy at Drexel University. His writing includes Urban Obsessions, Urban Fears: The Postcolonial Kenyan Novel () and Nyarloka’s Gift: The Writing of Marjorie Oludhe Macgoye (), along with essays in Research in African Literatures, the Journal of Contemporary African Studies, ARIEL, the Nairobi Journal of Literature, the Journal of Commonwealth Literature, and the Journal of African Cultural Studies. is Associate Professor at the University of Texas-Rio Grande Valley, where she teaches French and Spanish language and literature courses. Herareaof research focusesonWorld Literatureand especially postcolonial literatures from psychoanalytic and trauma stud- ies perspectives.She ismostinterested inexploring non-Westerndefin- itions of trauma and researching how different cultures develop resilience and resistance in the face of traumatic experiences. is Senior Lecturer in the School of English and Media Studies at Massey University. He is the author of Trauma and Media: Theories, Histories and Images () and Biopolitical Media: Catas- trophe, Immunity and Bare Life (). He is currently researching Walter Benjamin’s conception of natural history as a frame for under- standing the writings of W. G. Sebald and their influence on contem- porary cinema and media arts. © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org
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