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Writing History, Writing Trauma Updated

  • ISBN-13: 9781421414003
  • Publisher: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
    Imprint: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
  • By Dominick LaCapra
  • Price: AUD $59.99
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  • Local release date: 14/11/2014
  • Format: Paperback 264 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Literary theory [DSA]
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Trauma and its aftermath pose acute problems for historical representation and understanding. In Writing History, Writing Trauma, Dominick LaCapra critically analyzes attempts by theorists and literary critics to come to terms with trauma and with the crucial role post-traumatic testimoniesnotably Holocaust testimoniesassume in thought and in writing. These attempts are addressed in a series of six interlocking essays adapting psychoanalytic concepts to historical analysis, which, in turn, elucidates trauma and its aftereffects in culture and in people. This updated edition includes a substantive new preface that reconsiders some of the issues raised in the book.

Preface 2004
Preface to the First Edition
1. Writing History, Writing Trauma
2. Trauma, Absence, Loss
3. Holocaust Testimonies: Attending to the Victim's Voice
4. Prepetrators and Victims: The Goldhagen Debate and Beyond
5. Interview for Yad Vashem (June 9, 1998)
6. Conclusion: Writing (about) Trauma
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