De Facto Trauma Reconsidered

Edited By: Faten Haouioui

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This collection revises contemporary trauma theory. Moving beyond Western models, it adopts a cross-cultural approach to discuss trauma in Arab-Maghrebean, Afro-American, and Chinese contexts, and its artistic representation in poetry and drama.

This collection of essays revises contemporary trauma theory, from Freudian/Caruthian and post-structuralist perspectives. While Western trauma theory is often theorized according to post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), this volume discusses different forms of trauma that target decolonisation theories in Arab-Maghrebean and Afro-American contexts and Chinese narratives on courtesans. The contributors to this book also scrutinize the artistic representation of trauma in poetry and drama, adopting a cross-cultural approach to trauma theory.

Dr Faten Haouioui is an Associate Professor of English Studies at the Higher Institute of Studies Applied to Humanities in Tunis. She holds a PhD in “Trauma, Resilience and Identity Construction in Amy Tan’s Fiction” and an MA in “Myths and Multiplicity of Voices in Maxine Hong Kingston’s The Woman Warrior and China Men.” Her areas of research interest include trauma studies, Asian-American literature, literary theory, and literary studies. She has also published many articles on Chinese-American literature and trauma theory.

Faten Haouioui, Hejer Ayedi, Yosra Amraoui, Bootheina Majoul, Céline Richard, Sana ben Ali Taga, Salwa Mezguidi, Hanene Baroumi, Amira Hedhili, Haifa Dallegi, Mahassen Mgadmi, Olfa Gandouz