Acknowledgements Chapter One The Form of Absence: Writing Trauma, Writing the Body Chapter Two The Wound that Wounds: Trauma, Subjectivity, and Vision in the Photography of Sally Mann Chapter Three Foreign Bodies: Traumatic Latency and Corporeality in Beloved Chapter Four Don DeLillo's The Body Artist : Performing the Body, Narrating Trauma Chapter Five Corporeal Fantasies: Trauma and the Body in Dorothy Allison's Bastard Out of Carolina Notes Bibliography Index