Contemporary Approaches in Literary Trauma Theory

1. Front Matter

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2. Literary Trauma Theory Reconsidered

   • Michelle Balaev

   Pages 1-14

3. Parsing the Unspeakable in the Context of Trauma

   • Barry Stampfl

   Pages 15-41

4. Secondary Thinking and Trauma: Dostoevsky’s Notes from Underground

   • Herman Rapaport

   Pages 42-69

5. Colonial Trauma, Utopian Carnality, Modernist Form: Toni Morrison’s Beloved and Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things

   • Greg Forter

   Pages 70-105

6. Trauma and Power in Postcolonial Literary Studies

   • Irene Visser

   Pages 106-129

7. Voices of Survivors in Contemporary Fiction

   • Laurie Vickroy

   Pages 130-151

8. Memory and Commemoration in the Digital Present

   • Paul Arthur

   Pages 152-175

9. Back Matter

   Pages 176-177

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This edited collection argues that trauma in literature must be read through a theoretical pluralism that allows for an understanding of trauma's variable representations that include yet move beyond the concept of trauma as pathological and unspeakable.

• Trauma theory
• Literary trauma
• English literature
• fiction
• Literary Studies
• British and Irish Literature

• Washington State University, USA

  Michelle Balaev

Paul Arthur, University of Western Sydney, Australia Greg Forter, University of South Carolina, USA Herman Rapaport, Wake Forest University, USA Barry Stampfl, San Diego State University, USA Laurie Vickroy, Bradley University, USA Irene Visser, University of Groningen, The Netherlands

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