Thinking traumatic histories / Zachary Riebeling

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Riebeling, Zachary, author.

Series:

Cambridge elements. Elements in historical theory and practice

Cambridge elements. Elements in historical theory and practice, 2634-8616

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psychic trauma--History.

Psychic trauma.

Psychic trauma--Historiography.

Genre:

Psychic trauma -- Historiography

History

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2026

Summary:

"This Element investigates the challenges and possibilities of writing histories of trauma. Interpreting trauma as not only an event but also as an analytical framework and an apparatus for working on suffering, it explores how the historiography of trauma intersects with pressing matters of postcolonialism, historical subjectivity, and modernity. It is designed to illuminate the pressing theoretical matters that histories of trauma touch upon, whether explicitly or implicitly. Drawing from histories of trauma as well as foundational theoretical work in literary studies and memory studies, it argues that thinking traumatic histories requires a commitment on the part of historians to theoretical self-reflexivity, to querying not just the past or the archive for the traces of trauma, but the concept itself in its historical and historiographical modulations"-- Cambridge Core

Contents:

Introduction : history under the shadow of trauma

Event, analysis, deployment

Trauma and the West

Trauma and historical subjectivity

Trauma and modernity

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references

Online resource; title from PDF title page (Cambridge Core, viewed May 11, 2026)

Other Format:

Print version: Riebeling, Zachary Thinking traumatic histories

ISBN:

9781009496162

1009496166

OCLC:

1579001830

Publisher Number:

CIPO000349797

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license