Listening to Trauma
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Features interviews with a diverse group of leaders in the theorization of, and response to, traumatic experience in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
Cathy Caruth Boeken
Cathy Caruth is een hoogleraar geesteswetenschappen wiens werk diep ingaat op de gebieden van trauma, narratief en geschiedenis. Haar literaire analyses onderzoeken hoe onze ervaringen worden gevormd door de verhalen die we vertellen en hoe deze verhalen ons begrip van waarheid en fictie beïnvloeden. Caruth's benadering overbrugt vaak literaire kritiek met psychoanalyse en filosofie om de ingewikkelde verbanden tussen taal, geheugen en menselijke ervaring te ontrafelen. Haar wetenschap is essentieel om te begrijpen hoe literatuur onze diepste trauma's en geleefde realiteiten weerspiegelt en vormgeeft.
The afterword provides a critical perspective on current debates within the field, offering insights that contribute significantly to the discourse. It addresses key issues and challenges, positioning itself as a vital commentary that encourages further exploration and dialogue among scholars and practitioners.
These stories of trauma cannot be limited to the catastrophes they name, and the theory of catastrophic history may ultimately be written in a language that already lingers in a time that comes to us from the other side of the disaster.
The book explores the tension between traditional English empiricism, particularly Locke's view of self-understanding through observation, and the critiques posed by Romantic poets and German philosophers. Cathy Caruth reinterprets Locke's work as a narrative where "experience" holds a complex and uncanny significance. She examines how Wordsworth, Kant, and Freud engage with this narrative, not merely as opponents of empiricism but as grappling with the intricate relationship between language and experience in their own writings.