W. G. Sebald

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A New Century of Trauma?

Lewis Ward December 9, 2012 6 Comments Aminatta Forna Austerlitz Cathy Caruth Citizen and Me contemporary American trauma narrative Delia Jarrett-Macauley Dominick LaCapra Eurocentricism incomprehensibility Interrogating Trauma in the Humanities Jean-Michel Ganteau Kali Tal Kantian sublime Kazuo Ishiguro Moses multidirectional memory negative capability pathologization pathology psychiatric responses to trauma Shoshana Felman Sierra Leone civil war Susana Onega The Memory of Love trauma literature trauma theory University of Lincoln W. G. Sebald

According to Shoshana Felman, “The twentieth century can be defined as a century of trauma” (171 n.1). But is the trauma paradigm relevant for…

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