Worlds of Hurt (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture, Series Number 95)

Worlds of Hurt presents a coherent rendering of the relationships between individual trauma and cultural interpretation, using as its focus the Holocaust, the Vietnam War, and the phenomenon of sexual…

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