The Future of Trauma Theory: Contemporary Literary and Cultural Criticism

ISBN-13: 9780415694599 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 182 str.

Buelens, Gert

Opis

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-Western accounts and understandings of trauma, memory and suffering. Part two, Politics and Subjectivity, turns explicitly to politics and subjectivity, focussing on the state and the various forms of subjection to which it gives rise, and on human rights, biopolitics and community. Each chapter, in different ways, advocates a movement beyond the sort of texts and concepts that are the usual focus for trauma criticism and moves this dynamic network of ideas forward. With contributions from an international selection of leading critics and thinkers from the US and Europe, this volume will be a key critical intervention in one of the most important areas in contemporary literary criticism and theory.

Spis treści

Preface: Beyond Tancred and Clorinda: Trauma Studies for Implicated Subjects, Michael Rothberg  Introduction  Part 1: History and Culture   Chapter 1: Knowledge, ‘Afterwardsness’ and the future of Trauma theory, Robert Eaglestone  Chapter 2: Fascism and the Sacred: Sites of Inquiry after (or along with) Trauma, Dominick LaCapra  Chapter 3: Beyond Eurocentrism: Trauma Theory in the Global Age, Stef Craps  Chapter 4: Affect, Body, Place: Trauma Theory in the World, Ananya Jahanara Kabir  Chapter 5: Trauma Ties: Chiasmus and Community in Lebanese Civil War Literature, Nouri Gana  Part 2: Politics and Subjectivity  Chapter 7: That which you are denying us’: Refugees, Rights and Writing in Arendt, Lyndsey Stonebridge  Chapter 8: Time, personhood, politics, Jenny Edkins  Chapter 9: The Biopolitics of Trauma, Pieter Vermeulen  Chapter 10: Future Shock: Science Fiction and the Trauma Paradigm, Roger Luckhurst

O autorze

Gert Buelens is Professor of English at Ghent University, and Director of LITRA, the Centre for Literature and Trauma there.

Sam Durrant is Senior Lecturer in Postcolonial Literature at the University of Leeds.

Robert Eaglestone is Professor of Contemporary Literature and Thought at Royal Holloway, University of London, and Director of the Holocaust Research Centre there.