Trauma and Literary Theory

Abstract

tW~ * ith the publication of three important new books on the psychoanalytic concept of trauma as it intersects with literature, literary theory, historiography, and contemporary culture, it is worth asking why, at this moment, trauma should attract such attention and become a pivotal subject connecting so many disciplines.1 Of course, looking at contemporary American culture and at the history of this

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