Gert Buelens, Sam Durrant and Robert Eaglestone (eds) The Future of Trauma Theory: Contemporary Literary and Cultural Criticism. Jane Kilby and Antony Rowland (eds) The Future of Testimony: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Witnessing.
In her introduction to one of the most prominent foundational texts of trauma studies, and while offering her much debated reading of Tasso's story of Tancred and Clorinda, Cathy Caruth wrote of the ways the traumatic experience can be voiced "not as the story of the individual in relation to the events of his own past, but as the story of the way in which one's trauma is tied up with the trauma of another, the way in which trauma may lead, therefore, to the encounter with another" (8) In th.