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Literature in the ashes of history /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Caruth, Cathy, 1955- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013.
Subjects:	Literature and history. Psychic trauma in literature. Collective memory in literature.

Table of Contents:

Preface: disappearing history
Parting words: trauma, silence and survival
The claims of the dead: history, haunted property and the law
Lying and history
Disappearing history: scenes of trauma in the theater of human rights
After the end: psychoanalysis in the ashes of history
Afterward: writing in the ash.