This book fills a gap in the field of contemporary trauma studies by interrogating the
relevance of trauma for African literatures. Kurtz argues that a thoughtful application of …

This article examines the performance of remembered experience within sharing in-the-
moment carried out by young women on Instagram. I propose that the small stories …

Traumatic revictimization is a well-known but not well-understood phenomenon.
Understanding the pathways through which revictimization occurs and the characteristics …

Cultural memory studies finds itself at an impasse: whereas 'cultural memory'is
conceptualized as mediated, dynamic, imaginative and shaped by the present, the dominant …

Über die Anfänge des Trauma-Konzepts in der Literatur um 1800. Das Konzept des
Traumas ist in den letzten Jahrzehnten sowohl zu einer psychiatrisch anerkannten …

Demanding Witness investigates how the trauma of female characters is represented and
received in four Greek tragedies about homecoming: Aeschylus' Agamemnon, Sophocles' …

This article examines the crowd as a narrative technology in literature and liberal
historiography. Taking Dickens's Barnaby Rudge as my example, I show how the figure of …

The collapse of Napoleon's Empire and the restoration of Louis XVIII left a legacy so
embittered that hopes of political reconciliation were thought impossible. To this end, the …

This article discusses the tension between the temporality of progress, characteristic of the
modern time regime and totalitarian politics of time, and the nature of traumatic memory, as …

This paper aims to offer both an interpretation and a critique of the epistemological
foundations underlying one of the most recent approaches to trauma studies: cultural trauma …