Thinking Traumatic Histories - Paperback

FormatBook

Language English

ISBN-13 / SKU 9781009496155

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by Zachary Riebeling (Author)

This Element investigates the challenges and possibilities of writing histories of trauma. Interpreting trauma as not only an event but also as an analytical framework and an apparatus for working on suffering, it explores how the historiography of trauma intersects with pressing matters of postcolonialism, historical subjectivity, and modernity. It is designed to illuminate the pressing theoretical matters that histories of trauma touch upon, whether explicitly or implicitly. Drawing from histories of trauma as well as foundational theoretical work in literary studies and memory studies, it argues that thinking traumatic histories requires a commitment on the part of historians to theoretical self-reflexivity, to querying not just the past or the archive for the traces of trauma, but the concept itself in its historical and historiographical modulations.

Number of Pages: 66

Dimensions: 0.14 x 9 x 6 IN

Publication Date: May 28, 2026

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