The Journal of Literature and Trauma Studies
Resilience and Trauma in Alexandra Fuller’s Memoirs
Lena Englund
Witnessing Impossibility: The Traumatic Theater of Rachel Neuburger’s Nepenthe
Leonie Ettinger
Anna Kavan’s Ecologies of Trauma: Who Are You? and Ice
Alice Hill-Woods
Airing Trauma on the BBC Third Programme
Jeremy Lowenthal
(Not) Looking Back, Looking Forward: Post- and Future Memory in Everywhere at the End of Time
Alexandra Weiss
Palestinian Postmemory: Melancholia and the Absent Subject in Larissa Sansour’s In Vitro, Saleem Haddad’s “Song of the Birds,” and Adania Shibli’s Touch - Layla AlAmmar
Therapeutic Applications of Ciné-théâtre in Reframing Trauma Narratives and Attenuating Posttraumatic Distress in the Survivors of Sexual Violence: Koffi Kwahulé’s Les Recluses - Eric Wistrom
Testimony, Aporia, and the Holocaust in the Poems of Dan Pagis - Ashok K. Mohapatra
Trauma and Colonial Specters in Assia Djebar’s Fiction - Amar Guendouzi
A Russian Poetics of Trauma: Encounters with Death and the Literary Reclamation of the Individual - Laurie Vickroy
Revisiting the Sites of Trauma: The War Poetry of Siegfried Sassoon, Edmund Blunden, and Richard Hugo
Michael Sarnowski
Ricoeur’s Theory of Metaphor as Trauma Praxis
Iris J. Gildea
Dystopia, Trauma, and Resignation: A Reading of Perec’s W, or the Memory of Childhood and Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go
Annabel Herzog
Postmemory’s Graphic Symptom: Disembodied Voice, Repetition Compulsion, and Working through Trauma in GB Tran’s Vietnamerica
Jin Lee
Forms of Mediation in Ari Folman’s Waltz with Bashir
Donato Loia
Book Review
Guy Beiner, Forgetful Remembrance. Social Forgetting and Vernacular Historiography of a Rebellion in Ulster
Catriona Kennedy
Symptoms of Psychological Problems among Children of Holocaust Survivors: Faye Sholiton’s The Interview - Gene A. Plunka
The Politics of Parenting in Nancy Huston’s Fault Lines: Transgenerational Trauma Revisited - Susan Bainbrigge
The Trauma of the Archive in Sinan Antoon’s Novel Fihris - Sami Alkyam
Guests of Empire, Ghosts of Dispossession: Traumatic Loss and the Subject without a Proper Name in The Gangster
We Are All Looking For - Yasuko Kase
The Banal Sublime of Postcolonial Bombay and Calcutta: The Embodied Ghosts, Falling Bodies, and Tangled Webs in
Chandra’s “Dharma” and Chaudhuri’s A Strange and Sublime Address - Molly Volanth Hall
Guest Editors: Emmanuel Alloa, Pierre Bayard, Soko Phay
From the Guest Editors' Introduction:
"The concept of postmemory has received some attention over the past few years in the field of literary and memory studies and beyond. Like the conference before it, this special issue seeks to assess the concept’s diagnostic relevance for dealing with the question of the aftermath of extreme violence. Taking as its starting point the genocidal experience of the Holocaust, the special issue asks what it would mean to apply the notion of “postmemory” to other cases of traumatic memory in the 20th century: in particular, the genocides perpetrated in Armenia, Cambodia, Rwanda, and Bosnia. Although wide-ranging in temporal distance from the present, all of these cases raise the question of how memories of such traumatic events remain active even among those who have not personally witnessed them, as well as the question of how to address these sorts of indirect memories."
Literatures of the Aftermath
From the Editor's Introduction:
" The articles presented here deal with what may be termed 'the literatures of the aftermath' and therefore the interlocking problems of both personal remembrance and cultural memory that always occur in the “after” impact of the events. All the articles present here recognise the irreducible nature of traumatic events with the subsequent strivings of troubled memory and the demands of a damaged language." (D. Miller)