Since the Second World War, an increasing number of scholars have begun to focus on research related to trauma. This article attempts to demonstrate the long-standing history of studying trauma issues. Ankersmit’s theory of historical trauma innovatively approaches the topic from an aesthetic perspective, incorporating the concept of forgetting which has been overlooked by previous historians. This theory not only explains the origins of Western historical consciousness but also breaks through the previous simplistic linear attribution of trauma severity, providing a new direction for the study of trauma theory.
References
[1]
Ankersmit, F. R. (2022). Trauma and Suffering: A Forgotten Source of Western Historical Consciousness. In J. Rüsen (Ed.), Western Historical Thinking: An Intercultural Debate (pp. 72-84). Berghahn Books. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781782389835-008
[2]
Ankersmit, F. R. (2005). Sublime Historical Experience. Stanford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781503624597
[3]
Bell, D. (2006).Memory, Trauma and World Politics: Reflections on the Relationship between Past and Present. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230627482
[4]
Burke, E. (2015). A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful. Oxford University. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781107360495
[5]
Figley, C. R. (2006).Mapping Trauma and Its Wake: Autobiographic Essays by Pioneer Trauma Scholars. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203956472
[6]
Friedrich, N. (2007). The Birth of Tragedy & Other Writings. Cambridge University.
[7]
Friedrich, N. (1957). The Use and Abuse of History for Life. The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc.
[8]
LaCapra, D.(2014).Writing History, Writing Trauma. The Johns Hopkins University. https://doi.org/10.56021/9781421414003
[9]
Ron, E. (2001). Cultural Trauma: Slavery and the Formation of African American Identity.Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511488788
[10]
Simon, Z. B., & Kuunkanen, J. M. (2015). Assessing Narrativism, History and Theory,54, 153-161. https://doi.org/10.1111/hith.10750
