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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 modes of reading and of listening. It is a leading concept of our time, applicable to individuals, cultures, and nations. This book traces how 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, development, and applications of trauma in literary studies, Trauma and Literature addresses the relevance and impact this concept has in the field.

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Cambridge Critical Concepts focuses on the important ideas animating twentieth- and twenty-ﬁrst-century literary studies. Each concept addressed in this series has 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, while also featuring fresh insights and establishing new lines of inquiry.

Cambridge Critical Concepts shifts the focus from period- or genre-based literary studies of a key term to the history and development of the terms themselves. Broad and detailed contributions cumulatively identify and investigate the various 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 relevance for subjects such as history and philosophy.

Published Titles Time and Literature Edited by  .  University of Ottawa Law and Literature Edited by   The University of Western Australia Trauma and Literature Edited by .   Drexel University

Forthcoming titles The Global South and Literature Edited by  - Universität Tübingen Food and Literature Edited by   San Francisco State University Animals and Literature Edited by  ,  , and   Florida State University and University of Montreal Orientalism and Literature Edited by   University of Sunderland

Terrorism and Literature Edited by   San Diego State University Technology and Literature Edited by   University of Toronto Aﬀect and Literature Edited by   University of Cambridge Climate and Literature Edited by   University of Surrey Decadence and Literature Edited by   and   Goldsmith College and Hunter College

TRAUMA AND LITERATURE

  J. ROGER KURTZ Drexel University

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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

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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 

Contributors

 -  is Reader in the Department of Film, Media and Cultural Studies at Birkbeck, University of London. Her research is located at the interface of museum, memory, and cultural studies with a special interest in cultural memory, commemoration and identity politics, 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 on John Fowles and of Novel Horizons: The Genre Making of Restoration Fiction (), as well as the coeditor of seven essay collections, most recently of Early Modern Constructions of Europe () and Holocaust Cinema in the Twenty-First Century (). He has published essays on

x Contributors postmodern and postcolonial literature and film, early modern narrative fiction, Holocaust Studies, and heavy metal.   is Professor of Women’s Gender, and Sexuality Studies at 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 Course of Health Activism () and Treatments: Language, Politics, and the Culture of Illness (), and the coeditor of Feminist Time against Nation Time (, with Victoria Hesford).  .  conducts research at the interface of contemporary 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, James Baldwin, Art Spiegelman, John Edgar Wideman, 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.”   is the author of Traumatic Possessions: The Body and Memory in African American Women’s Writing and Performance () and has published work in literary trauma studies in Obsidian: 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. She is Associate Professor of English at New York Institute of Technol- 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.

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. Her current project studies the representation and commodi- fication of traumatic memory in South African visual culture, 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. Her area of research focuses on World Literature and especially postcolonial literatures from psychoanalytic and trauma studies perspectives. She is most interested in exploring non-Western defin- 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 contemporary cinema and media arts.

xii Contributors  .  is an independent scholar who previously taught English literature at the University of Durham. Having published on the topic of incest in literature, her research focuses on sexual trauma in the domestic literary space, with a particular interest in how literature may effect social change.   is Assistant Professor of Humanities at Boston Uni- versity. His first book, The Forsaken Son: Child Murder and Atonement in Modern American Fiction (), uses trauma theory and theology to analyze depictions of infanticide in recent novels. His essays have appeared in Contemporary Literature, Twentieth-Century Literature, Reli- gion and Literature, Religion and the Arts, and Narrative.   is Lecturer in the School of the Arts & Media at the University of New South Wales, where he teaches media theory and political communication. He researches the intersection of affect and power in media, literature, and political culture and is currently working on a project about drone warfare and witnessing. He is the author of Gestures of Testimony: Torture, Trauma and Affect in Literature () and coeditor of Traumatic Affect (). He was previously speechwriter to The Honorable Jack Layton MP, leader of the New Democratic Party of Canada.  - is an affiliated researcher with the Depart- ment of Language and Communication Studies, University of Jyväs- kylä. She has published chapters and articles on the representation of trauma in contemporary North American women’s fiction. Her most recent work has appeared in Studies in the Novel.  .  is Visiting Scholar in Psychology at Boston College and Lecturer at the University of New Hampshire-Manchester. He holds a Ph. D. in philosophy from The City University of New York – The Graduate Center, an M.F.A. in sculpture from Columbia University, and a B.A. in philosophy from Columbia University. His research interests lie at the intersection of philosophy of art, cognitive science, and embodied cogni- tion. His welded steel constructions have been exhibited in New York City and at a number of colleges and university galleries, including a solo show of outdoor works at Ezra Stiles College at Yale University.   is Assistant Professor of English at Lindsey Wilson College. She has been published in the Journal of Modern Literature and has essays in War and the Mind: Ford Madox Ford’s Parade’s End,

Contributors xiii Modernism, and Psychology (