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There is nothing quite like this book. A clearly written and broadly researched, sophisticated study extending the scope of today's trauma studies into the analysis and appreciation of American poetry. It is fascinating, quirky, surprising, convincing. -- Vincent B. Leitch, University of Oklahoma

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter 1. History's "Black Page": Genocide and Modern American Verse
Chapter 2. The Holocaust at Home
Chapter 3. Harlem Dancers and the Middle Passage
Chapter 4. Specters of Commitment in Modern American Literary Studies
Chapter 5. The Enigma of Witness: Domestic Trauma on and off the Couch
Epilogue. Reading Abu Ghraib
Notes
Index

About the Author

Walter Kalaidjian is a professor of English at Emory University.

Reviews

"There is nothing quite like this book. A clearly written and broadly researched, sophisticated study extending the scope of today's trauma studies into the analysis and appreciation of American poetry. It is fascinating, quirky, surprising, convincing." - Vincent B. Leitch, University of Oklahoma"