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