CONTENTS

Contributors

Acknowledgements

Preface: beyond Tancred and Clorinda—trauma studies for implicated subjects
Michael Rothberg

Introduction
Gert Buelens, Sam Durrant and Robert Eaglestone

PART I
History and culture

1    Knowledge, ‘afterwardsness’ and the future of trauma theory
Robert Eaglestone

2    Fascism and the sacred: sites of inquiry after (or along with) trauma
Dominick LaCapra

3    Beyond Eurocentrism: trauma theory in the global age
Stef Craps

4    Affect, body, place: trauma theory in the world
Ananya Jahanara Kabir

5    Trauma ties: chiasmus and community in Lebanese civil war literature
Nouri Gana

6    Undoing sovereignty: towards a theory of critical mourning
Sam Durrant

PART II
Politics and subjectivity

7    ‘That which you are denying us’: refugees, rights and writing in Arendt
Lyndsey Stonebridge

8    Time, personhood, politics
Jenny Edkins

9    The biopolitics of trauma
Pieter Vermeulen

10  Future shock: science fiction and the trauma paradigm
Roger Luckhurst

Index