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Journal of Literature and Trauma Studies
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The Journal of Literature and Trauma Studies is a peer-reviewed journal that takes literature as the primary site for investigations into trauma.
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Zong! exposes Philip’s violent struggle with English, a “foreign anguish,” inherited from the colonizer. She dismembers sentences, “murder[s]” and “mutilates the text, cut[s] it into pieces,” “white[s] out and black[s] out words.
August 23, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Reed argues that The Golden Notebook represents a pivotal point in the history of literary studies, and especially in the trajectory of post-Freudian criticism, offering a methodology for presenting incest in literature that does not resort
to originary paranoia or harm-obfuscating euphemism.
July 30, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Farhani argues that failed political activism is not necessarily the result of external social constraints; rather, personal traumas can hinder resistance and prevent the successful expression of emotion.
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July 29, 2025 at 4:09 PM
The works analysed range from diaries to short stories and novels, from both canonical and little-known authors, such as Khalil #Sakakin, Jabra Ibrahim #Jabra, Emile #Habibi, Samira #Azzam, Edward #Said, Sahar #Khalifeh, Mahmoud #Al-Rimawi, Adania #Shibli, and Majd #Kayal.
July 29, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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Rocío González-Espresati Clement - Symphony in White: The Attribution of Guilt #sexual_abuse #Lisboa

Sossie Kechichian - “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” and “One of the Missing”: Ambrose Bierce’s Anticipation of Psychological Trauma #American_Civil_War #Bierce
July 26, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Lotta Viitala and Mehdi Ghasemi - The Haunting Past: Exploring Jude’s Trauma and Stigma in Hanya Yanagihara’s A Little Life #Haunting #Yanagihara

Mona Becker - “Raised Under Glass”: Trauma, Gaze, and the City in Aminatta Forna’s Happiness (2018) #London #Forna
July 26, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Veronica De Pieri - Coping, Resilience, and Post-Traumatic Growth in Shiga Izumi’s Mujō no kami ga maioriru (2017) #Resilience #Izumi

Griffin Reed - Incest and the Anti-Psychoanalytic in Doris
Lessing’s The Golden Notebook #Incest #Lessing
July 26, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Nora Parr - Mapping Anxiety in Palestinian Literary Railways #Palestinian_Literature

Amira Farhani - “Post-Desire . . . Post-Good and Evil”: Counter-Affect and the Re-Traumatized Memory
in Shukri Mabkhout’s The Italian #Memory #Mabkhout
July 26, 2025 at 3:59 PM