Trauma Explorations in Memory

by Cathy Caruth

Book Overview

Because traumatic events are unbearable in their horror and intensity, they often exist as memories that are not immediately recognizable as truth. Such experiences are best understood not only through the straightforward acquisition of facts but through a process of discovering where and why conscious understanding and memory fail. Literature, according to Cathy Caruth and others, opens a window on traumatic experience because it teaches readers...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080185007X
• ISBN13: 9780801850073
• Release Date: June 1995
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"