Trauma and Literature in an Age of Globalization

Introduction

Jennifer Ballengee and David Kelman

Part I: Trauma, Deconstruction, and Global Relations

1. Globalization and the Theory of Trauma: A Conversation with Cathy Caruth

Cathy Caruth

2. The Cut that Links: Paracomparatism in Caruth and Danticat

David Kelman

3. Common Catastrophes: or, Personification Reconsidered

Brian McGrath

4. Fugitive Sovereignties in Amitav Ghosh's Ibis Trilogy: Deconstructing the "Unparalleled Catastrophe" of the Human

Mina Karavanta

Part II: Politics and Literature

5. The Foreign Body in Psychoanalysis and Politics: A Conversation with Elissa Marder

Elissa Marder

6. Reverberations: Traumatic Histories, Cultural Difference, and the Drama of Listening in Eileen Chang's Yuannue and The Rouge of the North

Emily Sun

7. Some Iterations of Blood

Brett Levinson

8. "How Very Godfather Part II of you": Trauma and Intertextual Comparison in A Brief History of Seven Killings

Jay Rajiva

9. Framing the World: Texts that Circulate and People Who Cannot

Basak Candar

Part III: Literature and Human Rights

10. Literature, the Humanities, and Political Action: A Conversation with Elisabeth Weber

Elisabeth Weber

11. Killing Dogs: Animality and Trauma in Waltz with Bashir and Deogratias

Russell Samolsky

12. Flood Poetics: Nigeria, New Orleans, and O?undare's City without People

Avery Slater

13. Phantom Work: Refugees, Antigone, Comparative Literature

Jennifer Ballengee

14. Rights, Politics, and Engagement: A Conversation with Thomas Keenan

Thomas Keenan