Reading List

Reading List

(This is the bibliography of required and suggested readings. The texts in bold are required.)

Brown, Laura. "Not Outside the Range: One Feminist Perspective on Psychic Trauma." Ed. Cathy Caruth. Trauma: Explorations in Memory. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1995.100-13.

Caruth, Cathy, ed. Trauma: Explorations in Memory. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1995.

Delbo, Charlotte. Days and Memory. Trans. Rosette Lamont. Marlboro, Vt.: Marlboro Press, 1990.

Felman, Shoshana and Dori Laub, eds. Testimony: Crises of Witnessing in Literature, Psychoanalysis, and History. New York: Routledge, 1992.

Hansen, Miriam. "Schindler's List Is Not Shoah: Second Commandment, Popular Modernism, and Public Memory." Visual Culture and the Holocaust. Ed. Barbie Zelizer. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 2001.

Herman, Judith Lewis. Trauma and Recovery. New York: Basic Books, 1992.

Hirsch, Marianne. “The Generation of Postmemory.” Poetics Today, 29.1 (2008): ---. "Marked by Memory: Feminist Reflections on Trauma and Transmission." Eds. Nancy K. Miller and Nancy K. and Jason Tougaw. Extremities: Trauma, Testimony, and Community. Urbana: U of Illinois P, 2002.

---. "Projected Memory: Holocaust Photographs in Personal and Public Fantasy." Acts of Memory. Eds. Jonathan Crewe and Leo Spitzer Mieke Bal. Hanover, NH: U of New England P, 1998. 2-23.

---. "Surviving Images: Holocaust Photographs and the Work of Postmemory." Yale Journal of Criticism 14.1 (2001): 5-37.

Langer, Lawrence L. “Deep Memory: The Buried Self.” Holocaust Testimonies: The Ruins of Memory. New Haven: Yale UP, 1993.

Laub, Dori. “Bearing Witness, or the Vicissitudes of Listening.” Eds. Shoshana Felman and and Dori Laub. Testimony: Crises of Witnessing in Literature, Psychoanalysis, and History. New York: Routledge, 1992.

---. “An Event Without Witness: Truth, Testimony, and Survival.” Eds. Shoshana Felman and Dori Laub. Testimony: Crises of Witnessing in Literature, Psychoanalysis, and History. New York: Routledge, 1992.

Morrison, Toni. "The Site of Memory." Inventing the Truth: The Art and Craft of Memoir. Ed. William Zinsser. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1987. 103-24.

Mullins, Matthew. “Boroughs and Neighbors: Traumatic Solidarity in Jonathan Safran Foer‟s Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close.” Papers on Language and Literature 45.3 (Summer 2009): 298-324.

Young, James. “America’s Holocaust: Memory and the Politics of Identity. ” The Americanization of the Holocaust. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1999. 68-82.

---. “The Holocaust as Vicarious Past:  Art Spiegelman’s Maus and the Afterimages of History,” Critical Inquiry 24.3 (1998): 666-699.