Literature in the ashes of history /
Caruth, Cathy,1955-author.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preface -- Parting words: trauma, silence, and survival: Sigmund Freud -- The claims of the dead: history, haunted property, and the law: Honoré de Balzac -- Lying and history: Hannah Arendt -- Disappearing history: scenes of trauma in the theater of human rights: Ariel Dorfman -- Psychoanalysis in the ashes of history: Wilhelm Jensen, Sigmund Freud, and Jacques Derrida -- Afterward.
Literature and history.
Psychic trauma in literature.
Collective memory in literature.