Trauma, by Lucy Bond and Stef Craps

Resumen

In The Age of Extremes: The Short Twentieth Century 1914-1991 (1995), the English historian Eric Hobsbawm characterized the twentieth century by the unique amount of human catastrophes, such as the Russian Revolution of 1917, the two great wars, economic crises and systematic genocide, evidencing the relevance of understanding the different types of traumas triggered by this context. Trauma, by Lucy Bond and Stef Craps, is presented as a necessary guide for understanding the elasticity of the term trauma and its applicability for cultural and literary studies. In this horizon, Trauma explores the different conceptions of trauma from the 19th century on, besides presenting possible definitions and practical applications in the field of literary studies, recognizing its dissemination as a critical category in the academic environment. Written by professors in English literature departments, Lucy Bond at the University of Westminster in the UK and Stef Craps, Ghent University in Belgium, the volume is part of a series of publications entitled The New Critical Idiom, whose aim is to elucidate crucial terms for literary theory studies in an introductory way.