Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements vii
4. Part I. Theme
5. Introduction to Part I 3
6. Chapter 1. The past as revenant: trauma and haunting in Pat Barker's Another Worl 12
7. Chapter 2. Telling tales: trauma and testimony in Binjamin Wilkomirski's Fragments 30
8. Chapter 3. 'Ground that will remember you': trauma and landscape in Anne Michaels's Fugitive Pieces 48
9. Part II. Style
10. Introduction to Part II T 81
11. Chapter 4. Othello in the ghetto: trauma and intertextuality in Caryl Phillips's The Nature of Blood 89
12. Chapter 5. The butterfly man: trauma and repetition in the writing of W. G. Sebald 117
13. Chapter 6. Recomposing the past: trauma and improvisation in Toni Morrison's Jazz and Jackie Kay's Trumpet 140
14. Conclusion 161
15. Notes 163
16. Bibliography 170
17. Index 179