Writing History, Writing Trauma (Parallax: Re-visions of Culture and Society)

Trauma and its aftermath pose acute problems for historical representation and understanding. In Writing History, Writing Trauma, Dominick LaCapra critically analyzes attempts by theorists and literary critics to come to terms with trauma and with the crucial role post-traumatic testimonies―notably Holocaust testimonies―assume in thought and in writing. These attempts are addressed in a series of six interlocking essays that adapt psychoanalytic concepts to historical analysis, while employing sociocultural and political critique to elucidate trauma and its aftereffects in culture and in people. This updated edition includes a substantive new preface that reconsiders some of the issues raised in the book.

• Unclaimed Experience: Trauma, Narrative, and History
• Trauma: Explorations in Memory
• Cultural Trauma and Collective Identity
• Trauma: A Social Theory
• Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence--From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror
• History and Memory After Auschwitz
• Literature in the Ashes of History
• The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World
• Beyond the Pleasure Principle (Norton Library)
• Precarious Life: The Powers of Mourning and Violence