Andrea Bachner is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at Cornell University. She is the author of Beyond Sinology: Chinese Writing and the Scripts of Culture and the co-editor (with Carlos Rojas) of The Oxford Handbook of Modern Chinese Literatures.

"By the sheer force of its sophistication and range, this book demands that we engage anew with poststructuralist theory's evolving potentialities-in particular, with its intimate ties to the politics and ethics of wounding."-Rey Chow, Duke University -- -Rey Chow Anne Firor Scott Professor of Literature, Duke University

• Acknowledgements Introduction: At the Scene of Inscription 1. Savage Marks: Subjection and the Specters of Anthropology 2. Impact Erasure: Psychoanalysis and the Multiplication of Trauma 3. Stings of Visibility: Picture Theories and Visual Contact 4. Out of the Groove: Aural Traces and the Mediation of Sound Conclusion: Against Inscription? Notes Works Cited Index

Andrea Bachner is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at Cornell University. She is the author of Beyond Sinology: Chinese Writing and the Scripts of Culture and the co-editor (with Carlos Rojas) of The Oxford Handbook of Modern Chinese Literatures.

"By the sheer force of its sophistication and range, this book demands that we engage anew with poststructuralist theory's evolving potentialities-in particular, with its intimate ties to the politics and ethics of wounding."-Rey Chow, Duke University -- -Rey Chow Anne Firor Scott Professor of Literature, Duke University

• Acknowledgements Introduction: At the Scene of Inscription 1. Savage Marks: Subjection and the Specters of Anthropology 2. Impact Erasure: Psychoanalysis and the Multiplication of Trauma 3. Stings of Visibility: Picture Theories and Visual Contact 4. Out of the Groove: Aural Traces and the Mediation of Sound Conclusion: Against Inscription? Notes Works Cited Index

Andrea Bachner is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at Cornell University. She is the author of Beyond Sinology: Chinese Writing and the Scripts of Culture and the co-editor (with Carlos Rojas) of The Oxford Handbook of Modern Chinese Literatures.

"By the sheer force of its sophistication and range, this book demands that we engage anew with poststructuralist theory's evolving potentialities-in particular, with its intimate ties to the politics and ethics of wounding."-Rey Chow, Duke University -- -Rey Chow Anne Firor Scott Professor of Literature, Duke University

• Acknowledgements Introduction: At the Scene of Inscription 1. Savage Marks: Subjection and the Specters of Anthropology 2. Impact Erasure: Psychoanalysis and the Multiplication of Trauma 3. Stings of Visibility: Picture Theories and Visual Contact 4. Out of the Groove: Aural Traces and the Mediation of Sound Conclusion: Against Inscription? Notes Works Cited Index