Foundational Works
Felman, Shoshan and Dori Laub. Testimony: Crises of Witnessing in Literature, Psychoanalysis, and History. New York: Routledge, 1991.
Caruth, Cathy. Unclaimed Experience: Trauma, Narrative, and History. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996.
Caruth, Cathy, ed. Trauma: Explorations in Memory. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995.
Studies
Ali, SK Sagir, ed. Literature and the War on Terror: Nature, Democracy, and Liberalisation. New York: Routledge, 2023.
Ali, SK Sagir and Swayamdipta Das, eds. Writing Disaster in South Asian Literature and Culture: The Limits of Empathy and Cosmopolitan Imagination. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2024.
Ben Baya, Abdennebi. Displacing (Dis-)articulations: Monstrous Disruptions, Trauma, Abreactions in Colonial and Recent Minor Writings. Tunis: Faculté des Sciences Humaines et Sociales, 2012.
Boase, Elizabeth and Christopher G. Frechette, eds. The Bible Through the Lens of Trauma. SBL Press, 2016.
Diehl, Chad R. Shadows of Nagasaki: Trauma, Religion, and Memory after the Atomic Bombing. NY: Fordham University Press, 2024.
Dyck, Reginald. After the Theft of the Sacred: Experiential Religion in Indigenous Writing. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2026.
Goodhart, Sandor. Möbian Nights: Reading Literature and Darkness. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2017.
James, David. Discrepant Solace: Contemporary Literature and the Work of Consolation. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2019.
Hartman, Geoffrey. The Longest Shadow: In the Aftermath of the Holocaust. Indiana University Press, 1996.
—–. Scars of the Spirit: The Struggle Against Inauthenticity. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002.
Hoondert, Martin et al., eds. The Handbook of Disaster Ritual: Multidisciplinary Perspectives, Cases and Themes. Leuven: Peeters, 2021.
Johnson, George M. Mourning and Mysticism in First World War Literature and Beyond: Grappling with Ghosts. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
Kaplan, E. Ann. Trauma Culture: The Politics of Terror and Loss in Media and Literature. Rutgers University Press, 2005.
Karmakar, Goutam and Zeenat Khan, eds. Narratives of Trauma in South Asian Literature. New York: Routledge, 2023.
Kuchar, Gary. The Poetry of Sorrow in Early Modern England. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009.
Mengel, Ewald and Michela Borzaga, eds. Trauma, Memory, and Narrative in the Contemporary South African Novel: Essays. New York: Rodopi, 2012.
Nelson, Holly, Lynn Szabo, and Jenns Zimmerman, eds. Through a Glass Darkly: Suffering, the Sacred, and the Sublime in Literature and Theory. Wilfried Laurier University Press, 2010.
Nyambi, Oliver. Life-Writing from the Margins in Zimbabwe: Versions and Subversions of Crisis. New York: Routledge, 2019.
Ohmer, Sarah Soanirina. The Keloids We Heal: Trauma, Spirituality, and Black Modernity in Literature. University of Illinois Press, 2025.
Peters, Erin and Cynthia Richards, eds. Early Modern Trauma: Europe and the Atlantic World. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2021.
Rubin, Abraham. Conversion and Catastrophe in German-Jewish Émigré Autobiography. Buffalo, NY: University of Toronto Press, 2025.
Sheikh, Sheheryar B. The Post-9/11 Great American Novel: Fictional Perpetuations of White American Trauma and Islamophobia. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2025.
Still, Erica. Prophetic Remembrance: Black Subjectivity in African American and South African Trauma Narratives. University of Virginia Press, 2014.
Vesely-Flad, Rima. Black Buddhists and the Black Radical Tradition: The Practice of Stillness in the Movement for Liberation. New York University Press, 2022.
Wong, Briana L. Cambodian Evangelicalism: Cosmological Hope and Diasporic Resilience. Pennsylvania State University Press, 2023.
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