Traumatic Memory and the Ethical, Political and Transhistorical Functions of Literature

Chapter 2 Memory and Appropriation: Remembering Dante in Germany During the Sexcentenary of 1921

Chapter 3 On Poetic Violence: W.B. Yeats’s “Leda and the Swan” and César Vallejo’s “Vusco volvvver de golpe el golpe”

Chapter 4 Holocaust Trauma Between the National and the Transnational: Reflections on History’s “Broken Mirror”

Chapter 5 Wandering Memory, Wandering Jews: Generic Hybridity and the Construction of Jewish Memory in Linda Grant’s Works

Chapter 6 “Fighting Trauma”: Silencing the Past in Alan Scott Haft’s Harry Haft: Survivor of Auschwitz, Challenger of Rocky Marciano

Chapter 7 Medieval Romance After HIV and AIDS: The Aesthetics of Innocence and Naïveté and the Postmodern Novel

Chapter 8 Remembrance Between Act and Event: Anne Enright’s The Gathering

Chapter 9 Class Trauma, Shame and Spectrality in Sarah Waters’s The Little Stranger

Chapter 10 On Exile, Memory and Food: Yasmin Alibhai-Brown’s The Settler’s Cookbook: A Memoir of Love, Migration and Food

Chapter 11 Self-Representation and the (Im)Possibility of Remembering in Jamaica Kincaid’s The Autobiography of My Mother and Mr. Potter

Chapter 12 Trauma, Screen Memories, Safe Spaces and Productive Melancholia in Toni Morrison’s Home

Chapter 13 Conclusion