The Afterlife of Trauma

  • Michael Rothberg
    Traumatic Realism: The Demands of Holocaust Representation. University of Minnesota Press
  • Fred Turner
    Echoes of Combat: Trauma, Memory, and the Vietnam War. University of Minnesota Press
  • Leigh Gilmore
    The Limits of Autobiography: Trauma and Testimony. Cornell University Press
Reviewed by Marlene Briggs
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This review “The Afterlife of Trauma” originally appeared in Literature & War. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 179 (Winter 2003): 171-173.

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