Trauma Explorations in Memory

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Price
$42.55
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Publish Date
Pages
288
Dimensions
6.04 X 8.97 X 0.68 inches | 0.88 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9780801850073

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About the Author

Cathy Caruth is the Frank H. T. Rhodes Professor of Humane Letters at Cornell University. She is the author of Unclaimed Experience: Trauma, Narrative and History, Literature in the Ashes of History, Listening to Trauma: Conversations with Leaders in the Theory and Treatment of Catastrophic Experience, and Empirical Truths and Critical Fictions, also available from Johns Hopkins University Press.

Reviews

The most thought-provoking book I have read this year is probably Cathy Caruth's anthology Trauma: Explorations in Memory. It's a 1995 collection of essays by a range of authors from the fields of psychoanalysis and literary and cultural criticism, including the film-maker Claude Lanzmann (Shoah). The frequently mechanical and lifeless nature of traumatised discourse, the question of how you listen and communicate, and the possible moral obligation to resist understanding the perpetrators are some of the themes, but there are others, too, as relevant today as they were then.

--Sigrid Rausing "New Statesman"