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Worlds of Hurt: Reading the Literatures of Trauma
Kalí Tal
An early version of this manuscript appeared as Bearing Witness: The Literature of Trauma, an American Studies dissertation, Yale University, 1991. A substantially revised version was published as Worlds of Hurt: Reading the Literatures of Trauma (Cambridge University Press, 1996). This is a third revision; in addition to substantial corrections and supplements to the text, it contains a new chapter on ethnocentric bias in the now popular field of trauma studies. Please send questions and comments to kali@kalital.com.
Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Chapter One: Worlds of Hurt
- Chapter Two: A Form of Witness: The Holocaust and North American Memory
- Chapter Three: Remembering Difference; Working Against Eurocentric Bias in Contemporary Scholarship on Trauma and Memory
- Chapter Four: Between the Lines: Reading the Vietnam War
- Chapter Five: The Farmer of Dreams: The Writings of W.D. Ehrhart
- Chapter Six: There Was No Plot And I Discovered It By Mistake: Trauma, Community and the Revisionary Process
- Chapter Seven: We Didn't Know What Would Happen: Opening the Discourse on Sexual Abuse
- Chapter Eight: This Is About Power On Every Level: Three Incest Survivor Narratives
- This Is Not A Conclusion
Reviews
- "A Lifetime of Anger and Pain": Kali Tal and the Literatures of Trauma, David J. DeRose, Postmodern Culture (7:1) January 1997
- "Editor's Choice: War, Literaturea and the Arts," Maggie Jaffe, War, Literature & the Arts (8:2) Fall/Winter 1996.