| Description |
xii, 243 pages ; 22 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction: Between the psyche and the polis / Michael Rossington and Anne Whitehead -- Old idolatry: rethinking 'ideology' and 'materialism' / Simon Jarvis -- History and the sacred in de Man and Benjamin / Nigel Mapp -- Freud and the force of history: The Project for a Scientific Psychology / Clare Connors -- Parting words: trauma, silence and survival / Cathy Caruth -- Reading trauma: Charlotte Delbo and the struggle to represent / Victoria Stewart -- Trauma, testimony and the survivor: calling forth the ghosts of Bosnia-Herzegovina / Stephanie Young -- In the penal colony / John Frow -- Séance fiction: confronting the ghost(s) of the Mexican revolution in Madero, El Toro by Ignacio Solares / Robin Fiddian -- The angel of memory: 'working through' the history of new South Africa / Christopher J. Colvin -- History and trauma: reviewing Forrest Gump / Susannah Radstone -- Traumatic memories of remembering and forgetting / Elizabeth Cowie -- Aftermath: pastiche, the postmodern and the end of history in Angela Carter's Nights at the Circus / Rachel Carroll |
| Notes |
Most of the essays were first presented as papers at a two-day international conference, 'Refiguring history: Between the Psyche and the Polis', organised by the editors and hosted by the Department of English Literary and Linguistic Studies at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne in May 1999 -- Acknowledgements |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliography (pages 219-231) and index |
| Subject |
Memory in literature.
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Psychic trauma in literature.
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Literature and history.
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Psychoanalysis and literature.
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History in literature.
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History -- Philosophy.
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| Author |
Rossington, Michael.
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Whitehead, Anne, 1971-
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| ISBN |
0754602281 |
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