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Volume 7 Issue 2

Revisiting the Sites of Trauma: The War Poetry of Siegfried Sassoon, Edmund Blunden, and Richard Hugo
Michael Sarnowski

Ricoeur’s Theory of Metaphor as Trauma Praxis
Iris J. Gildea

Dystopia, Trauma, and Resignation: A Reading of Perec’s W, or the Memory of Childhood and Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go
Annabel Herzog

Postmemory’s Graphic Symptom: Disembodied Voice, Repetition Compulsion, and Working through Trauma in GB Tran’s Vietnamerica
Jin Lee

Forms of Mediation in Ari Folman’s Waltz with Bashir
Donato Loia

Book Review
Guy Beiner, Forgetful Remembrance. Social Forgetting and Vernacular Historiography of a Rebellion in Ulster
Catriona Kennedy

Guest Editors: Emmanuel Alloa, Pierre Bayard, Soko Phay

From the Guest Editors' Introduction:
"The concept of postmemory has received some attention over the past few years in the field of literary and memory studies and beyond. Like the conference before it, this special issue seeks to assess the concept’s diagnostic relevance for dealing with the question of the aftermath of extreme violence. Taking as its starting point the genocidal experience of the Holocaust, the special issue asks what it would mean to apply the notion of “postmemory” to other cases of traumatic memory in the 20th century: in particular, the genocides perpetrated in Armenia, Cambodia, Rwanda, and Bosnia. Although wide-ranging in temporal distance from the present, all of these cases raise the question of how memories of such traumatic events remain active even among those who have not personally witnessed them, as well as the question of how to address these sorts of indirect memories."

Investigations in Literature, Trauma, and Theory

From the Editor's Introduction:
"The articles presented here range from major reinterpretations of the seminal works of trauma and literature study to considerations of the demands of class on the major categories of trauma analysis, the role of figurative and poetic language in trauma testimony and theory, and the interlocking of hermeneutics, trauma theory, and theology. These articles mark both a return to primary ethical concerns and a renewed theoretical energy." (D. Miller)

Literatures of the Aftermath
From the Editor's Introduction:
" The articles presented here deal with what may be termed 'the literatures of the aftermath' and therefore the interlocking problems of both personal remembrance and cultural memory that always occur in the “after” impact of the events. All the articles present here recognise the irreducible nature of traumatic events with the subsequent strivings of troubled memory and the demands of a damaged language." (D. Miller)

Tag: forgetting

Volume 7 Issue 2

Volume 4 Issue 1-2 – Figurations of Postmemory

Volume 3 Issue 2 Investigations in Literature, Trauma, and Theory

Volume 3 Issue 1 Literatures of the Aftermath