Table of Contents

Contents: Liliana Sikorska: The heirlooms and burdens of Marina Warner - Marina Warner: They make a desert (and call it peace) - Liliana Sikorska: The voyage inside oneself: Cathy Caruth's investigation of trauma - Cathy Caruth: Disappearing history: Scenes of trauma in the theater of human rights - Simon Bacon: "Enter freely and of your own will": Invitations, travel and trauma in Bram Stoker's Dracula - Katarzyna Burzynska: Self-fashioning as an identity-shaping process in Marina Warner's Indigo and William Shakespeare's The tempest - Daragh Downes: "I'll drown my book": Travels between the lines of Shakespeare's The tempest and Dicken's A Christmas carol - Sabina Fazli: "The token of some great grief, which had been conquered, but not banished": Trauma, things, and domestic interiors in Collins, Dickens, and Raabe - Katarzyna Kuczma: The narrative of loss in Joan Didion's Blue nights - Jessica Quick: Writing the nation: Discourses of power in Richard Hakluyt's Principal Navigations - Tony Seaton: The Unknown Mother: Thanatourism and metempsychotic remembrance after World War I - Liliana Sikorska: Untold Stories: Reclaiming the past through (auto-biographical) narratives - Marta Wiszniowska-Majchrzyk: Memory and forgetfulness in the recent Booker novels - Liliana Sikorska: Actors in The water theatre: In interview with Lindsay Clarke.

About the Author

Liliana Sikorska, professor of English, head of the Department of English Literature and Literary Linguistics at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan (Poland); head of the Department of English Literature and Culture of English Speaking Countries at the University of Social Sciences in Warsaw (Poland); 2010 Fulbright Professor at the Cornell University in New York (USA); author and co-author of numerous books on medieval English and Irish literature as well as postcolonial literatures in English.