Haunting Legacies: Violent Histories and Transgenerational Trauma

Gabriele Schwab

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Paper, 256 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-15257-0
$26.50 / £18.50

October, 2010
Cloth, 256 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-15256-3
$79.50 / £55.00

Preface

Acknowledgments

1. Introduction

2. Writing Against Memory and Forgetting

3. Haunting Legacies: Trauma in Children of Perpetrators

4. Identity Trouble: Guilt, Shame, and Idealization

5. Replacement Children: The Transgenerational Transmission of Traumatic Loss

6. Deadly Intimacy: The Politics and Psychic Life of Torture

Bibliography

Index

Related Subjects

• Ethics
• Literary Criticism and Theory

About the Author

Gabriele Schwab is Chancellor's Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Irvine. Her books in English include Derrida, Deleuze, Psychoanalysis; Accelerating Possessions: Global Futures of Property and Personhood; and The Mirror and the Killer-Queen: Otherness in Literary Language.

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