...Samuel Cohen The Prestige of Violence: American Fiction 1962–2007 , by Bachner Sally , Athens : University of Georgia Press , 2011 . 172 pages. Roth and Trauma: The Problem of History in the Later Works (1995–2010) , by Pozorski Aimee , New York : Continuum , 2011 . 175...

...Richard Badenhausen Copyright © Hofstra University 2004 Mourning through Memoir: Trauma, Testimony, and Community in Vera Brittain s Testament of Youth Richard Badenhausen A s she first began to sketch out a plan for writing Testament of Youth, Vera Brittain (1893-1970...

...Elizabeth S. Anker The Affective Life of Law: Legal Modernism and the Literary Imagination , By Reichman Ravit , Stanford University Press , 2009 . 213 pages. Copyright © Hofstra University 2010 Review Law,  Trauma, and Modernist Aesthetics The Affective Life of Law: Legal...

...Maren Linett Copyright © Hofstra University 2005 m “ New Words, New Everything” : Fragmentation and Trauma in Jean Rhys Maren Linett Je a n Rhys’s novels present an intriguing case study for thinking about the status and meaning of fragmented text. With their polyvocal, nonlin­...

...Trevor Dodman Copyright © Hofstra University 2006 HI “ Going All to Pieces” : A Farewell to Arms as Trauma Narrative Trevor Dodman Bullet wounds do not cause severe bleeding unless they hap­ pen to injure some large trunk or smash one of the larger bones. Wounds...

... stress and of Irish neutrality. Weaving together Beckett’s intertextual relationship with Dante’s Divine Comedy , the commonplace that Emergency-era Ireland was a cultural “purgatory,” and the language of trauma studies, this essay suggests that Watt can be productively read through the paradigm of...

...Thomas F. Haddox Gayl Jones’s novel Corregidora has most often been read as testament to the continuity of the traumas of slavery and sexual violence across temporal and spatial boundaries—traumas transmitted and affirmed both through familial descent and through the enduring vitality of the blues...

... unsanctioned by military authority. This reframing of A Farewell to Arms as Catherine’s war story rather than as her love story also reveals a Hemingway sensitive to how the trauma of World War I rewrote identity for women as well as men. Copyright © Hofstra University 2016 Ernest Hemingway World War...

...Amanda K. Greene This essay argues that Charlotte Delbo’s deployment of disgust in her memoir Auschwitz and After (1995) challenges the ethics and possibilities of trauma representation. As opposed to beautifying concentration camp victims through elegiac memorialization or claiming the sublime...

... Holocaust and trauma studies in recent years. In Traumatic Encounters: Holocaust Representation and the Hegelian Subject, Paul Eisenstein explores how the Hegelian subject might be redeemed for Holocaust and trauma studies from a milieu that has sometimes led to its preemptive burial. The...

... sentimental, ‘simpering,’ and (thus) insufficiently manly” (64). Forter begins his chapter on Faulkner, “Versions of Traumatic Melan- cholia: The Burden of White Man’s History in Light in August and Absalom, Absalom by reworking the dominant understanding of Freud’s theory of trauma. He...

... “forcibly severed from the social fabric, stigmatized, silenced, possibly physically dismembered” (2). As dys articulate, this figure is “blocked from language, standing at the convergence of all of language’s impasses: those of injury, trauma, neurological variation, socio-political silencing, and the...

... already constructed narratives— in particular, historical traumas— can affect the shape o f literary endings. This is espe­ cially the case, I will argue, for historical literature, work whose focus is explicidy on the past and always implicidy, as a result, on the way that 372...

... language that would disorient the reader in turn” (10–11). Likewise, “the discontinuous narration, full of jumps into different time periods, had to be invented to make a reader feel something akin to the dislocations of temporality endemic to those marked by trauma” (11). Wyatt also calls on Jacques Lacan...

... tagonists can be read as hysterics: subjects haunted by the past, characters who unconsciously express repressed memories of psychic trauma through physical symptoms and use a corporeal discourse to articulate what is otherwise unspeakable. Drawing on insights from psychoanalysis and em­...

..., and women’s rights been so imperiled and so Twentieth-Century Literature 54.3 Fall 2008 401 Suzette Henke little understood. Beset by unendurable personal losses and overwhelm­ ing cultural trauma, Woolf persisted in the “struggle to forge common values” (32) in a brave new world whose...

... novel therefore does not replicate the conditions of large-scale catastrophe but instead those of an anxious, uncertain everyday in order to imagine a moral framework for bearing witness and responsibility in trauma’s ongoing wake. Kaja Silverman claims that historical trauma—whether a war, an...

... that the study of American literature and culture might take in the years to come. O f the three, From Guilt to Shame is most directly preoccupied with theoretical questions of intention and meaning. In it, Leys builds on her last book, Trauma: A Genealogy, to argue that recent models of...

... psychoanalysis—to both its inter- pretive richness and its respect for “hidden truth.” While The White Hotel subordinates Freudianism to the terrors of history, it finds the trauma of the Shoah within psychoanalysis itself, encoded in Lisa Erdman’s illegible hysterical symptoms. It points to what...

...” (79). In these melodramatic stagings of guilt and apology, it is the trauma of the American fall from innocence, as a result of the country’s military “adventures” in Southeast Asia, that is most in need of redress. We might recall here Clint Eastwood’s film Gran Torino , set in Detroit, in which...