The Routledge Companion to Literature and Trauma

Introduction to Literary Trauma Studies

Colin Davis and Hanna Meretoja

Part 1: Sources and Inspirations








History of Trauma Theory
Nicole Suetterlin




Philosophies of Trauma
Hanna Meretoja




Trauma, Poststructuralism and Ethics
Colin Davis




Theories of Cultural Trauma
Todd Madigan




Trauma and Cultural Memory Studies
Rosanne Kennedy




Testimony
Meg Jensen




Trauma, Time and Address
Cathy Caruth

Part 2: Key Concepts




Victimhood
Susana Onega




Perpetrator Trauma
Erin McGlothlin




Witnessing
Carolyn Dean




Screen Memory
Max Silverman




Working-Through
Jean-Michel Ganteau




Affect
Andreea Ritivoi




Narrative
Jakob Lothe




Gender
Sharon Marquart




Intersectionality



Kaisa Ilmonen

Part 3: Critical Perspectives and Future Directions

17. Cosmological Trauma and Postcolonial Modernity

Sam Durrant and Ryan Topper

18. Trauma and the Implicated Subject

Michael Rothberg

19. Transcultural Empathy

Katja Garloff

20. Cognitive Approaches to Trauma and Literature

Joshua Pederson

21. Trauma, Critical Posthumanism and New Materialism

Deniz Gundogan Ibrisim

22. Trauma Studies in the Digital Age

Anna Menyhert

23. Reading Literatures of Trauma in the Age of Globalization

Kaisa Kaakinen

24. Trauma, Illness and Narrative in the Medical Humanities

Jo Winning

25. Climate Trauma

Stef Craps

Part 4: Genres and Media

26. Trauma and Fiction

Robert Eaglestone

27. Trauma and Poetry

Charles Armstrong

28. Trauma and Life Writing

Leena Kurvet-Kaeosaar

29. Graphic Narratives as Trauma Fiction

Katalin Orban

30. Trauma and Drama/Theatre/Performance

Patrick Duggan

31. Trauma and Photography

Cecile Bishop

32. Post-Apocalyptic Fiction and the Future Anterior

Jouni Teittinen

Part 5: Places and Events

33. Trauma in Holocaust Literature

Sue Vice

34. The German Occupation of France, 1940-44

Avril Tynan

35. The Vietnam War

Mark Heberle

36. The Rwandan Genocide

Josias Semujanga

37. 9/11

Lucy Bond

38. The Iraq War

Patrick Deer

39. Katrina

Eric Doise

40. Transgenerational Nuclear Trauma

Gabrielle Schwab