This lofty volume analyzes a circular cultural relationship: not only how trauma is reflected in cultural processes and products, but also how trauma itself acts as a critical shaper of literature, the visual and performing arts, architecture, and religion and mythmaking.

Table of Contents

• Dedication
• Introduction
• Acknowledgements
• Contributors
• Part I Representations of Trauma
• 1 Literature as Trauma:​ The Postmodern Option-Franz Kafka and Cormac Mccarthy - David Gurevitz
• 2 Cultural Trauma and the Media - Allen Meek
• 3 Television:​ A Traumatic Culture - Dan Arav
• 4 Popular Trauma Culture:​ The Pain of Others Between Holocaust Tropes and Kitsch-Sentimental Melodrama - Anne Rothe
• 5 The Trauma of Modernism: Between Existential Indeterminacy and Allegoresis - Dennis Sobolev
• 6 Before Recognition:​ On the Aesthetics of Aftermath - Lisa Saltzman
• 7 From Hiroshima to Fukushima:​ Comics and Animation as Subversive Agents of Memory in Japan - Ory Bartal
• 8 Performative Recollection:​ Koizumi Meiro Representations of Kamikaze Pilots and the Trauma of the Asia-Pacific War in Japan - Ayelet Zohar
• 9 Architecture and Trauma - Teresa Stoppani
• 10 Art as the Transport-Station of Trauma - Bracha Lichtenberg Ettinger
• Part II Theory of Trauma
• 11 The Trauma of Philosophy - Frank Seeburger
• 12 Irresponsible Nonsense:​ An Epistemological and Ethical Critique of Postmodern Trauma Theory - Anne Rothe
• 13 The Death of the Witness in the Era of Testimony:​ Primo Levi and Georges Perec - Yochai Ataria
• 14 Walking, Walking Out, and Walking Through:​ Transitional Space and Traumatic Time - Haviva Pedaya
• 15 Trauma and Monotheism:​ Sigmund Freud's Moses and Monotheism and the Possibility of Writing a Traumatic History of Religion - Koji Yamashiro
• 16 The Crisis of Manhood - Yochai Ataria
• 17 Laius Complex and Shocks of Maternality:​ With Franz Kafka and Sylvia Plath - Bracha Lichtenberg Ettinger
• 18 Fear, Trauma, and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder:​ Clinical, Neurobiological, and Cultural Perspectives - Mikael Rubin, Maya Neria and Yuval Neria
• Part III Case Studies of Collective Trauma
• 19 Some Reflections on Transmitting the Memory of the Holocaust and its Implications, Particularly in Israel - Saul Friedländer
• 20 Placing Collective Trauma Within Its Social Context:​ The Case of 9/​11 Attacks - Emily Joyner, Katharine Reiner van der Hoorn, Ari Platt, Mikael Rubin, Erel Shvil and Yuval Neria
• 21 Masculinity, Spirituality, and Male Wartime Sexual Trauma - R. Ruard Ganzevoort and Srdjan Sremac
• 22 Killing the Killer:​ Rampage and Gun Rights as a Syndrome - Kirby Farrell
• 23 Loss, Traumatic Bereavement, and Mourning Culture:​ The Israel Example - Eliezer Witztum, Ruth Malkinson and Simon Shimshon Rubin
• 24 Fear and Silence in Burma and Indonesia:​ Comparing Two National Tragedies and Two Individual Outcomes of Trauma - Robert Lemelson and Seinenu M. Thein-Lemelson
• Conclusion: Trauma and Culture: How Trauma Can Shape the Human Mind - Yuval Neria and Yochai Ataria