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This volume addresses the construction and artistic representation of traumatic memories in the contemporary Western world from a variety of inter- and trans-disciplinarity critical approaches and perspectives, ranging from the cultural, political, historical, and ideological to the ethical and aesthetic, and distinguishing between individual, collective, and cultural traumas. The chapters introduce complementary concepts from diverse thinkers including Cathy Caruth, Jacques Derrida, Judith Butler, Homi Bhabha, Abraham and Torok, and Joyce Carol Oates; they also draw from fields of study such as Memory Studies, Theory of Affects, Narrative and Genre Theory, and Cultural Studies. Traumatic Memory and the Political, Economic, and Transhistorical Functions of Literature addresses trauma as a culturally embedded phenomenon and deconstructs the idea of trauma as universal, transhistorical, and abstract.

Philosophy --- Cognitive psychology --- Linguistics --- Comparative literature --- Literature --- History as a science --- historiografie --- postkolonialisme --- geletterdheid --- filosofie --- literatuur --- geheugen (mensen) --- wereldliteratuur --- anno 1900-1999 --- Europe --- Psychic trauma in literature. --- Memory in literature. --- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary. --- LITERARY CRITICISM / General. --- Comparative literature. --- Literature—Philosophy. --- Literature, Modern—20th century. --- European literature. --- Literature   . --- Historiography. --- Comparative Literature. --- Literary Theory. --- Twentieth-Century Literature. --- European Literature. --- Postcolonial/World Literature. --- Memory Studies. --- Historical criticism --- History --- Authorship --- Belles-lettres --- Western literature (Western countries) --- World literature --- Philology --- Authors --- European literature --- Literature, Comparative --- Criticism --- Historiography --- History and criticism --- Literature, Modern --- Literature. --- Collective memory. --- World Literature. --- Collective remembrance --- Common memory --- Cultural memory --- Emblematic memory --- Historical memory --- National memory --- Public memory --- Social memory --- Memory --- Social psychology --- Group identity --- National characteristics --- Literature and philosophy --- Philosophy and literature --- Philosophy. --- 20th century. --- Theory