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Trauma Fiction This content downloaded from 128.122.230.132 on Fri, 30 Mar 2018 22:07:58 UTC All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms This content downloaded from 128.122.230.132 on Fri, 30 Mar 2018 22:07:58 UTC All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms Trauma Fiction Anne Whitehead Edinburgh University Press This content downloaded from 128.122.230.132 on Fri, 30 Mar 2018 22:07:58 UTC All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms # Anne Whitehead, 2004 Edinburgh University Press Ltd 22 George Square, Edinburgh Typeset in Baskerville by Hewer Text Ltd, Edinburgh, and printed and bound in Great Britain by The Cromwell Press Ltd, Trowbridge, Wilts A CIP record for this book is available from the British Library ISBN 0 7486 1857 0 (hardback) The right of Anne Whitehead to be identified as author of this work has been asserted in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. This content downloaded from 128.122.230.132 on Fri, 30 Mar 2018 22:07:58 UTC All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms Contents Acknowledgements vii Part I Theme Introduction to Part I 3 1 The past as revenant: trauma and haunting in Pat Barker’s Another World 12 2 Telling tales: trauma and testimony in Binjamin Wilkomirski’s Fragments 30 3 ‘Ground that will remember you’: trauma and landscape in Anne Michaels’s Fugitive Pieces 48 Part II Style Introduction to Part II 81 4 Othello in the ghetto: trauma and intertextuality in Caryl Phillips’s The Nature of Blood 89 5 The butterfly man: trauma and repetition in the writing of W. G. Sebald 117 6 Recomposing the past: trauma and improvisation in Toni Morrison’s Jazz and Jackie Kay’s Trumpet 140 Conclusion 161 Notes 163 Bibliography 170 Index 179 This content downloaded from 128.119.168.112 on Fri, 09 Dec 2016 17:04:22 UTC All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms This content downloaded from 128.119.168.112 on Fri, 09 Dec 2016 17:04:22 UTC All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms Acknowledgements A version of Chapter 1 appeared in Critique, published by Heldref Publications. Chapter 2 first appeared in Discourse, published by Wayne State University Press. The book was written during a period of research leave jointly funded by a University of Newcastle upon Tyne Internal Research Fellowship and an AHRB Research Leave Award.IwouldliketothankMoyraForrestforherworkontheindex and the School of English at Newcastle University for covering the indexingcosts. IamgratefultoJackieJones,myeditoratEdinburgh University Press, for her encouragement, support and judicious comments. I am also grateful to Cathy Caruth and Sue Vice who, as readersfor Edinburgh UniversityPress,offered valuablefeedback in the early stages of writing, and provided particularly helpful suggestions for the introductions and conclusion. My thinking has beenstimulatedbyconversationswithvariousfriendsandcolleagues, most notably John Beck, Kate Chedgzoy, Marita le vaul-Grimwood, Jonathan Long, Michael Rossington and Victoria Stewart. I would especially like to thank Linda Anderson for her encouragement of this project and for reading through and commenting on a draft version of the book. The symposium ‘Trauma: Narratives/Theory/ Politics’, held at the University of Salford in May 2003, provided me with food for thought in relation to Chapter 1, and I would like to thank Erica Burman, Richard Crownshaw and Jane Kilby for their rigorous and detailed readings of my paper. Carl Good and Anne Cubilie gave valuable suggestions for revising Chapter 2. I would finallyliketothankMarkGillingwater,forcheeringmeupalongthe way. vii This content downloaded from 128.122.230.132 on Fri, 30 Mar 2018 23:00:42 UTC All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms This content downloaded from 128.122.230.132 on Fri, 30 Mar 2018 23:00:42 UTC All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms Part I Theme This content downloaded from 128.119.168.112 on Fri, 09 Dec 2016 17:04:28 UTC All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms This content downloaded from 128.119.168.112 on Fri, 09 Dec 2016 17:04:28 UTC All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms
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