Writing History, Writing Trauma
Published on 29. October 2014
264 pages
978-1-4214-1401-0 (ISBN)
Description
An updated edition of a major work in trauma studies.
Trauma and its aftermath pose acute problems for historical representation and understanding. In Writing History, Writing Trauma, Dominick LaCapra critically analyzes attempts by theorists and literary critics to come to terms with trauma and with the crucial role post-traumatic testimonies-notably Holocaust testimonies-assume in thought and in writing. These attempts are addressed in a series of six interlocking essays that adapt psychoanalytic concepts to historical analysis, while employing sociocultural and political critique to elucidate trauma and its aftereffects in culture and in people. This updated edition includes a substantive new preface that reconsiders some of the issues raised in the book.
Trauma and its aftermath pose acute problems for historical representation and understanding. In Writing History, Writing Trauma, Dominick LaCapra critically analyzes attempts by theorists and literary critics to come to terms with trauma and with the crucial role post-traumatic testimonies-notably Holocaust testimonies-assume in thought and in writing. These attempts are addressed in a series of six interlocking essays that adapt psychoanalytic concepts to historical analysis, while employing sociocultural and political critique to elucidate trauma and its aftereffects in culture and in people. This updated edition includes a substantive new preface that reconsiders some of the issues raised in the book.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Baltimore
United States
Target group
College/higher education
File size
2,47 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-4214-1401-0 (9781421414010)
DOI
10.56021/9781421414003
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Dominick LaCapra
Writing History, Writing Trauma
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10/2014
Johns Hopkins University Press
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Dominick LaCapra is the Bryce and Edith M. Bowmar Professor in Humanistic Studies emeritus at Cornell University. His books include History and Its Limits: Human, Animal, Violence and History, Literature, Critical Theory.
Content
Preface 2004
Preface to the First Edition
1. Writing History, Writing Trauma
2. Trauma, Absence, Loss
3. Holocaust Testimonies: Attending to the Victim's Voice
4. Prepetrators and Victims: The Goldhagen Debate and Beyond
5. Interview for Yad Vashem (June 9, 1998)
6. Conclusion: Writing (about) Trauma
Index
Preface to the First Edition
1. Writing History, Writing Trauma
2. Trauma, Absence, Loss
3. Holocaust Testimonies: Attending to the Victim's Voice
4. Prepetrators and Victims: The Goldhagen Debate and Beyond
5. Interview for Yad Vashem (June 9, 1998)
6. Conclusion: Writing (about) Trauma
Index
