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Unclaimed Experience: Trauma, Narrative, and History

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By Cathy Caruth ’77

Published March 30, 2017

Cathy Caruth ’77 claims in Unclaimed Experience (Johns Hopkins University Press) that in the experience of trauma and our attempt to understand it, we can recognize the possibility of a history no longer based on experience and reference. Through trauma, we come to a new understanding that permits history to arise where immediate understanding might not.

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Terri Sewell ’86 at the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute, stands next to a portrait of civil rights leader John Lewis.
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