Arleen Ionescu is Tenured Professor of English Literature and Critical Theory at Shanghai Jiao Tong University. Research supported by the Program for Professor of Special Appointment (Eastern Scholar) at Shanghai Institutions of Higher Learning.Maria Margaroni is Associate Professor in Literary Theory and Feminist Thought at the University of Cyprus.

Giving up the overgeneralized concept of trauma, the contributors to this intriguing volume, following various disciplinary perspectives at the intersection of humanities and social sciences, carefully investigate particular geopolitical, social and cultural contexts of individual and collective traumatic experiences. Whereas classical trauma studies emphasized these experiences’ inaccessibility and unrepresentability, they shift attention to various possibilities and techniques of their healing.

• Arleen Ionescu, Maria Margaroni, Introduction / Part I: Holocaust Trauma and the Ambivalence of Healing: Irreverent Takes / 1. Ivan Callus (University of Malta), Unfamiliar Healing: Reconsidering the Fragment in Narratives of Holocaust Trauma / 2. Arleen Ionescu (Shanghai Jiao Tong University), Forgiving as Self-Healing? The Case of Eva Mozes Kor / 3. Lucia Ispas (University of Ploiesti), (Mis)Representing Trauma through Humour: Roberto Benigni's La vita è bella / Part II: Mass Trauma, Art and the Healing Politics of Place / 4. Mieke Bal (University of Amsterdam), Improving Public Space: Trauma Art and Retrospective-Futuristic Healing / 5. Ernst van Alphen (University of Leiden), Transforming Trauma into Memory / 6. Radhika Mohanram (Cardiff University), Textures of Indian Memories 7. Irene Scicluna (Cardiff University), How Do We Mourn? A Look at Makeshift Memorials / Part III: Intimate Healing / 8. Laurent Milesi (Shanghai Jiao Tong University), Literature between Antidote and Black Magic: The Autofiction o

Arleen Ionescu is Tenured Professor of English Literature and Critical Theory at Shanghai Jiao Tong University. Research supported by the Program for Professor of Special Appointment (Eastern Scholar) at Shanghai Institutions of Higher Learning.Maria Margaroni is Associate Professor in Literary Theory and Feminist Thought at the University of Cyprus.

Giving up the overgeneralized concept of trauma, the contributors to this intriguing volume, following various disciplinary perspectives at the intersection of humanities and social sciences, carefully investigate particular geopolitical, social and cultural contexts of individual and collective traumatic experiences. Whereas classical trauma studies emphasized these experiences’ inaccessibility and unrepresentability, they shift attention to various possibilities and techniques of their healing.

• Arleen Ionescu, Maria Margaroni, Introduction / Part I: Holocaust Trauma and the Ambivalence of Healing: Irreverent Takes / 1. Ivan Callus (University of Malta), Unfamiliar Healing: Reconsidering the Fragment in Narratives of Holocaust Trauma / 2. Arleen Ionescu (Shanghai Jiao Tong University), Forgiving as Self-Healing? The Case of Eva Mozes Kor / 3. Lucia Ispas (University of Ploiesti), (Mis)Representing Trauma through Humour: Roberto Benigni's La vita è bella / Part II: Mass Trauma, Art and the Healing Politics of Place / 4. Mieke Bal (University of Amsterdam), Improving Public Space: Trauma Art and Retrospective-Futuristic Healing / 5. Ernst van Alphen (University of Leiden), Transforming Trauma into Memory / 6. Radhika Mohanram (Cardiff University), Textures of Indian Memories 7. Irene Scicluna (Cardiff University), How Do We Mourn? A Look at Makeshift Memorials / Part III: Intimate Healing / 8. Laurent Milesi (Shanghai Jiao Tong University), Literature between Antidote and Black Magic: The Autofiction o

Arleen Ionescu is Tenured Professor of English Literature and Critical Theory at Shanghai Jiao Tong University. Research supported by the Program for Professor of Special Appointment (Eastern Scholar) at Shanghai Institutions of Higher Learning.Maria Margaroni is Associate Professor in Literary Theory and Feminist Thought at the University of Cyprus.

Giving up the overgeneralized concept of trauma, the contributors to this intriguing volume, following various disciplinary perspectives at the intersection of humanities and social sciences, carefully investigate particular geopolitical, social and cultural contexts of individual and collective traumatic experiences. Whereas classical trauma studies emphasized these experiences’ inaccessibility and unrepresentability, they shift attention to various possibilities and techniques of their healing.

• Arleen Ionescu, Maria Margaroni, Introduction / Part I: Holocaust Trauma and the Ambivalence of Healing: Irreverent Takes / 1. Ivan Callus (University of Malta), Unfamiliar Healing: Reconsidering the Fragment in Narratives of Holocaust Trauma / 2. Arleen Ionescu (Shanghai Jiao Tong University), Forgiving as Self-Healing? The Case of Eva Mozes Kor / 3. Lucia Ispas (University of Ploiesti), (Mis)Representing Trauma through Humour: Roberto Benigni's La vita è bella / Part II: Mass Trauma, Art and the Healing Politics of Place / 4. Mieke Bal (University of Amsterdam), Improving Public Space: Trauma Art and Retrospective-Futuristic Healing / 5. Ernst van Alphen (University of Leiden), Transforming Trauma into Memory / 6. Radhika Mohanram (Cardiff University), Textures of Indian Memories 7. Irene Scicluna (Cardiff University), How Do We Mourn? A Look at Makeshift Memorials / Part III: Intimate Healing / 8. Laurent Milesi (Shanghai Jiao Tong University), Literature between Antidote and Black Magic: The Autofiction o