Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Foreword
Introduction
Travails
Methodologies
After Auschwitz
Selecting the Texts
Chapter Outline
1. Prose: Coming and Going
Preamble
Traumatic Progress
Walking as Thinking
Watt and Traumatic Temporality
Walking as Traumatic Symptom
Blurring National Boundaries
Going Nowhere
Coming and Going
Fort-Da
Writing ‘About’ Trauma
Language and Dis-Orientation
The Wandering ‘I’
2. Theatre: Late Stage
Late Words
Beginning to End
Lateness
Stage Presence
Not I
Acting Out
Coming to Terms
That Time
Time, Trauma and the Self
Never the Same After That
Three Voices
Footfalls
Not Quite There
Shades
Pas
Imagining Later
3. Radio: The Voice Breaks
Haunted Media
Radio
Spectral Radio
Wireless Subjects
Embers
Diminishing in Tone
Trauma and the Subject
Unspeakably Excruciating
(Character) Studies of Trauma
Spectrality
Traumatic Modernity
Trauma, Modernity, Radio
The Birth of Modern Trauma
The Mechanism Jams
Conclusion: As the Story Was Told
As the Story was Told
When now?
Bibliography
General Bibliography
Online Resources
Film
Samuel Beckett in Company
Copyright
