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This book engages with postclassical Trauma Studies in order to widen the scope of discussion about trauma to concepts such as toleration, mourning, nostalgia, vulnerability and existential Angst. The authors question literature's manifold relationship to trauma is undertaken in a conscientious dialogue with ethics and politics.
List of contents
Introduction, Martina Domines and Charles I. Armstrong
Part One: From the Early Modern Period to the Long Nineteenth Century - Human Suffering before the Birth of Trauma
Chapter One: Sleeplessness and Suffering in Shakespeare, Lisa Hopkins
Chapter Two: Negotiations of Suffering in Samuel Richardson's Pamela, Tijana Matovi¿
Chapter Three: John Clare's Poetics of Suffering: Autobiographical Writings as the Embodiment of Romantic Nostalgia, Martina Domines
Chapter Four: Work as Toil in Tennyson's "The Lotos-Eaters", Borislav Kneževi¿
Chapter Five: The 'Pleasurable Suffering' of Tolerance in Anthony Trollope's He Knew He Was Right, Nina Engelhardt
Part Two: Twentieth Century Literary Landscapes of Suffering
Chapter Six: "Iron Nails Ran In": Modernism, Suffering and Humour in James Joyce's Ulysses, Dominik Wallerius
Chapter Seven: Dark Material and Radical Healing in August Wilson's Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, Jovana Pavi¿evi¿
Chapter Eight: Dealing with Suffering, Engaging with the Past: Problematic Vergangenheitsbewältigung in Philip Kerr's A Quiet Flame, Christine Berberich
Chapter Nine: "Our struggling bodies": Writing Pain and Subjection in 20th Century U.S. War Writing, Julien Brugeron
Chapter Ten: "Destruam et ædificabo": Personal and Historical Suffering within the Nostalgic Redemptive Narrative in John Banville's The Untouchable, Jennifer Cowe
Part Three: Twenty-first Century Kaleidoscopes of Trauma
Chapter Eleven: Derek Mahon's Biography, Poetry, and Trauma, Charles I. Armstrong
Chapter Twelve: "A Longing for Something Other", Aging Female Selves Suffering, Writing and Historicizing Trauma in Kate Morton's The Forgotten Garden, Marta Miquel-Baldellou
Chapter Thirteen: Building an Archive of Suffering in Philip Metres' Sand Opera and Solmaz Sharif's Look, Henrik Torjusen
Chapter Fourteen: "We are all victims"? Rethinking Vulnerability and Victimization in Literary Representations of Women's Suffering in Miriam Toews' Women Talking, Miriam Wallraven and Ksenija Kondali
Chapter Fifteen: "A Crack in Her/Bone Memory": Recovering the Mother's Story in Rosanna Deerchild's Calling Down the Sky, Cristina Stanciu
Chapter Sixteen: Suffering and Trauma: Douglas Stuart's Shuggie Bain as a Return to Realism, Zekiye Antakyal¿ölu
About the Contributors
About the author
Martina Domines is associate professor in the English Department at the University of Zagreb, Croatia.
Charles I. Armstrong is professor of English literature at the University of Agder, Norway.
