Table of Contents

Acknowledgements; Part I: Theme; Introduction to Part I: Theme; 1. The Past as Revenant: Trauma and Haunting in Pat Barker's Another World; 2. Telling Tales: Trauma and Testimony in Binjamin Wilkomirski's Fragments; 3. 'Ground that will remember you': Trauma and Landscape in Anne; Michaels's Fugitive Pieces; Part II: Style; Introduction to Part II: Style; 4. Othello in the Ghetto: Trauma and Intertextuality in Caryl Phillips's; The Nature of Blood; 5. The Butterfly Man: Trauma and Repetition in the Writing of W. G. Sebald; 6. Recomposing the Past: Trauma and Improvisation in Toni Morrison's; Jazz and Jackie Kay's Trumpet;; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography.

About the Author

Anne Whitehead is Senior Lecturer in Contemporary Literature and Theory at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. She is the author of Trauma Fiction and co-editor, with Michael Rossington, of Theories of Memory and of Between the Psyche and the Polis: Refiguring History in Literature and Theory and, with Jonathan Long, of W. G. Sebald.

Reviews

Displays intelligence, deep understanding of the conceptual issues surrounding trauma as a literary subject and originality. The book marks an important step forward in the development of trauma studies. -- Cathy Caruth, Winship Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature and English Displays intelligence, deep understanding of the conceptual issues surrounding trauma as a literary subject and originality. The book marks an important step forward in the development of trauma studies.