This collection analyses the future of 'trauma theory', a major theoretical discourse in contemporary criticism and theory. The chapters advance the current state of the field by exploring new areas, asking new questions and making new...
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This collection analyses the future of 'trauma theory', a major theoretical discourse in contemporary criticism and theory. The chapters advance the current state of the field by exploring new areas, asking new questions and making new connections.Part one, History and Culture, begins by developing trauma theory in its more familiar post-deconstructive mode and explores how these insights might still be productive. It goes on, via a critique of existing positions, to relocate trauma theory in a postcolonial and globalized world, theoretically, aesthetically and materially, and focuses on non-W
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Contributors; Acknowledgements; Preface: beyond Tancred and Clorinda-trauma studies for implicated subjects; Introduction; PART I History and culture; 1 Knowledge, 'afterwardsness' and the future of trauma theory; 2 Fascism and the sacred: sites of inquiry after (or along with) trauma; 3 Beyond Eurocentrism: trauma theory in the global age; 4 Affect, body, place: trauma theory in the world; 5 Trauma ties: chiasmus and community in Lebanese civil war literature; 6 Undoing sovereignty: towards a theory of critical mourning
PART II Politics and subjectivity7 'That which you are denying us': refugees, rights and writing in Arendt; 8 Time, personhood, politics; 9 The biopolitics of trauma; 10 Future shock: science fiction and the trauma paradigm; Index