Linda Belau and Petar Ramadanovic, ...

Linda Belau and Petar Ramadanovic, ed Topologies of Trauma: Essays forward the Limit of Knowledge and Memory. fresh York: Other Press, 2002 284 pp ISBN 1-892746-97-2 $5000

The in every one's mouth backlash against trauma studies is, perhaps, understandable. The trauma craze that took shut in of literary and cultural critics in the mid 1990 has sometimes l to aggrandizing appropriations of tragic history as a source of moral capital. yet my own work in the area does not completely immunize me against skepticism vis-a-vis the so-called "trauma industry," I was pleasantly