In this book, Roger Luckhurst both introduces and advances the fields of cultural memory
and trauma studies, tracing the ways in which ideas of trauma have become a major …

This article focuses on how the economic crisis in Southern Europe has stimulated temporal
thought (temporality), whether tilted in the direction of historicizing, presentifying, or futural …

We have spoken so far of certain pitfalls associated with thinking about the relationship
between memory and imagination, and suggested that we want to see this relationship in …

The plurality and growing number of responses to cultural trauma theory in postcolonial
criticism demonstrate the ongoing appeal of trauma theory despite the fact that it is also …

History, Time, and Economic Crisis in Central Greece explores how the inhabitants of a
Greek town face the devastating consequences of the worst economic crisis in living …

In Beloved, Toni Morrison expresses the dislocations and violence of slavery through
disruptions in language. The novel tells the “unspeakable” story of Sethe, a slave mother …

Looking at a diverse range of texts including Marilyn French's The Women's Room, Philip
Roth's Patrimony, the writings of Walter Benjamin and Fredric Jameson, and films such as …

" Un pur chef-d'oeuvre." With these words Simone de Beauvoir concludes her preface to the
French edition of the text of the film Shoah (1985) by Claude Lanzmann. 1 Any discussion of …

When soldiers began to break down in large numbers during the First World War and when
it became evident to some physicians that, in the absence of physical lesions, their wounds …