The Routledge Companion to Literature and Trauma.

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction to literary trauma studies -- PART I: Sources and inspirations -- 1. History of trauma theory -- 2. Philosophies of trauma -- 3. Trauma, poststructuralism and ethics -- 4. Theories of cultural trauma -- 5. Trauma and cultural memory studies -- 6. Testimony -- 7. Trauma, time and address -- PART II: Key concepts -- 8. Victimhood -- 9. Perpetrator trauma -- 10. Witnessing -- 11. Screen memory -- 12. Working-through -- 13. Affect -- 14. Narrative -- 15. Gender -- 16. Intersectionality -- PART III: Critical perspectives and future directions -- 17. Cosmological trauma and postcolonial modernity -- 18. Trauma and the implicated subject -- 19. Transcultural empathy -- 20. Cognitive approaches to trauma and literature -- 21. Trauma, critical posthumanism and new materialism -- 22. Trauma studies in the digital age -- 23. Reading literatures of trauma in the age of globalization -- 24. Trauma, illness and narrative in the medical humanities -- 25. Climate trauma -- PART IV: Genres and media -- 26. Trauma and fiction -- 27. Trauma and poetry -- 28. Trauma and life-writing -- 29. Graphic narratives as trauma fiction -- 30. Trauma and drama/theatre/performance -- 31. Trauma and photography -- 32. Post-apocalyptic fiction and the future anterior -- PART V: Places and events -- 33. Trauma in Holocaust literature -- 34. The German occupation of France, 1940-44 -- 35. The Vietnam War -- 36. Narratives of the Rwandan genocide -- 37. 9/11 -- 38. The Iraq War -- 39. Katrina -- 40. Transgenerational nuclear trauma -- Index.

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