The Routledge Companion to Literature and Trauma
- Submitting institution
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Royal Holloway and Bedford New College
- Unit of assessment
- 26 - Modern Languages and Linguistics
- Output identifier
- 38376803
- Type
- B - Edited book
- DOI
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10.4324/9781351025225
- Publisher
- Routledge
- ISBN
- 9781138494923
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- May
- Year of publication
- 2020
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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1
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- Proposed double-weighted
- No
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- Yes
- Additional information
- The book is part of the ‘Routledge Companions to Literature’ series. Davis was commissioned by Routledge as lead editor. He and the co-editor designed the book as a comprehensive study of literature and trauma, with sections on Sources and inspirations, Key concepts, Critical perspectives and Future directions, Genres and media, and Places and events. The book covers historical and conceptual aspects of trauma as well as its uses in literature, theatre, graphic narrative, film, photography and digital media; it unpacks key concepts such as witnessing, victimhood, narrative, gender and intersectionality; and it covers trauma in relation to areas such as Holocaust literature, literature of 9/11, the Vietnam War, the Rwandan genocide and Hurricane Katrina; and it looks at future developments of trauma studies in relation, for example, to climate trauma, the digital age, the medical humanities, postcolonialism, globalization and transgenerational nuclear trauma. All forty chapters were commissioned in view of their authors’ established expertise, with contributors coming from thirteen different countries. All chapters are previously unpublished and original, by world-renowned authors including Cathy Caruth, Jakob Lothe, Michael Rothberg, Sue Vice, Gabriele Schwab and Royal Holloway colleague Robert Eaglestone. Davis co-wrote 50% of the Introduction (5,000 words), which gives a critical overview of the history and theory of literary trauma studies; and he wrote one of the theoretical chapters ‘Trauma, poststructuralism and ethics’ (5,000 words), which analyses the development of trauma studies out of poststructuralism. Overall, this 250,000-word volume is a guide to literature and trauma as well as being an original intervention in the future development of trauma studies. Professor Dominick LaCapra, one of the founders of modern trauma studies, describes it as an ‘ambitious, far-ranging volume’ which may offer ‘bases to elaborate further possibilities and limits in the critical understanding of trauma and trauma studies’.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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