trauma theory definition
Page 21 Trauma Theory: Contexts, Politics, Ethics 21 History The foregrounding of questions of testimony and witness establish trauma theoryâs pertinence to the discipline and practice of history. Trauma theory is associated with the âturn to memoryâ in history as well as in the Humanities more generally. Postmodernismâs problematizations of grand narratives, objectivity, universality and totality prompted a turn to memoryâs partial, local and subjective narratives.