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Project

Whither Trauma Theory? Debating the Future of Literary Research on the Memory of Catastrophe
Code
365H3408
Duration
01 February 2009 → 30 September 2009
Funding
Federal funding: various
Research disciplines
  • Humanities and the arts
    • Language studies
    • Literary studies
    • Theory and methodology of language studies
    • Theory and methodology of linguistics
    • Theory and methodology of literary studies
    • Other languages and literary studies
Keywords
trauma theory literature in English ethics
 
Project description

This VLAC Fellow cluster project aims to examine whether and how trauma studies can break with its monocultural and Eurocentric tendencies, which are at odds with the commitment to social justice on which the field prides itself, through the analysis of literary and cultural representations of various previously neglected traumatic histories.