Acknowledging previous research on the novel and drawing upon the social history of Victorian masculinities by John Tosh, I argue that Basil (1852), Wilkie Collins’s first venture into the sensation genre, offers an ...

In the 1990s, Chile, no longer under the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet Ugarte, began to settle accounts with its recent past. The literary space in which the traumas were inscribed both by survivors who remained in ...

The objective of this study is to locate the key words of trauma present in Líbranos del bien (2023 [2008]) by Alonso Sánchez Baute, a novel chronicling the violence of Colombian society in the 21st century. The terminological ...

This article explores the impact of climate trauma on reproductive choices and the imagination of parenthood in the age of environmental crisis. As climate change is increasingly perceived as an existential threat, fear ...

Brigitte Schwaiger (1949-2010) achieved notable success in German-speaking countries and internationally with her 1977 novel Wie kommt das Salz ins Meer?, a success that led to her being regarded as one of Austria’s most ...

This article examines the trauma of communal violence as depicted in Amitav Ghosh’s The Shadow Lines (1988). The narrative centres on two traumatic episodes of catastrophic events that upend the lives of the anonymous ...

Inspired by a true story which took place in the 1820s, the play Woyzeck by Georg Büchner gives voice to the traumatic experience of a soldier guilty of murder. The aim of the essay is to investigate how Woyzeck is in ...

In the literary tradition of ancient Mesopotamia, a distinct poetic genre, known as the “lamentations”, exists. This corpus of texts explores the theme of human and divine expressions of suffering in response to dramatic ...