Trauma in Contemporary Literature

Marita Nadal is Senior Lecturer in the Department of English and German Philology at the University of Zaragoza, Spain. Mónica Calvo is Lecturer in the Department of English and German Philology at the University of Zaragoza, Spain.

Trauma and Literary Representation: An Introduction Marita Nadal and Mónica Calvo Part 1: Global Trauma and the End of History 1. After the End: Psychoanalysis in the Ashes of History Cathy Caruth 2. Apocalypses Now: Collective Trauma, Globalization and the New Gothic Sublime Avril Horner 3. Not Now, Not Yet: Polytemporality and Fictions of the Iraq War Roger Luckhurst Part 2: Trauma and the Power of Narrative 4. The Turn to the Self and History in Eva Figes’ Autobiographical Works: The Healing of Old Wounds? Silvia Pellicer-Ortín 5. History, Dreams, and Shards: On Starting Over in Jenny Diski’s Then Again Gerd Bayer 6. Plight vs. Right: Trauma and the Process of Recovering and Moving beyond the Past in Zoë Wicomb’s Playing in the Light Dolores Herrero 7. Seeing It Twice: Trauma and Resilience in the Narrative of Janette Turner Hospital Isabel Fraile Murlanch 8. The Burden of the Old Country’s History on the Psyche of Dominican-American Migrants: Junot Díaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao Aitor Ibarrola-Armendariz Part 3: Trauma and the Problem of Representation 9. H.D.’s Twice (Un)Told Tale Marc Amfreville 10. ‘Time to Write them Off’? Impossible Voices and the Problem of Representing Trauma in The Virgin Suicides Bilyana Vanyova Kostova 11. Fugal Repetition and the Re-enactments of Trauma: Holocaust Representation in Paul Celan’s ‘Deathfugue’ and Cynthia Ozick’s The Shawl María Jesús Martínez-Alfaro 12. Of Ramps and Selections: The Persistence of Trauma in Julian Barnes’s A History of the World in 10 ½ Chapters Jean-Michel Ganteau 13. The Trauma of Anthropocentrism and the Reconnection of Self and World in J. M. Coetzee’s Dusklands Susana Onega 14. ‘There’s that curtain come down’: The Burden of Shame in Sarah Waters’ The Night Watch Maite Escudero-Alías 15. ‘Welcome to contemporary trauma culture’: Foreshadowing, Sideshadowing and Trauma in Ian McEwan’s Saturday Bárbara Arizti