This edited collection argues that trauma in literature must be read through a theoretical pluralism that allows for an understanding of trauma's variable representations that include yet move beyond the concept of trauma as pathological and unspeakable.
1. Literary Trauma Theory Reconsidered; Michelle Balaev 2. Parsing the Unspeakable in the Context of Trauma; Barry Stampfl 3. Secondary Thinking and Trauma: Dostoyevsky's Notes from Underground; Herman Rapaport 4. Colonial Trauma, Utopian Carnality, Modernist Form: Toni Morrison's Beloved and Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things ; Greg Forter 5. Trauma and Power in Postcolonial Literary Studies; Irene Visser 6. Voices of Survivors in Contemporary Fiction; Laurie Vickroy 7. Memory and Commemoration in the Digital Present; Paul Arthur Notes Index
