Aimee PozorskiRoth and Trauma
The Problem of History in the Later Works (1995-2010)
Preface
Acknowledgments
1. Roth and Trauma: The Problem of History in the Later Works
2. "I pledge a legion to the flag": Drenka Balich's Malapropisms and the
Traumatic Sublime of the Flag
3. American Pastoral and the Traumatic Ideals of Democracy
4. "The stars are indispensable": Trauma, Betrayal, and Celebrity in I
Married a Communist
5. Founding Traumas: Vietnam, Infanticide and The Iliad in The Human Stain
6. Terror, Trauma, and "the mockery of Armageddon": The Dying Animal in the
New Millennium
7. Traumatic Realism, "Afterwardsness" and the Figure of the Child in The
Plot Against America
8. Exit Ghost: Mourning Zuckerman in the Age of Terror
9. "the gravest meaning": Trauma and the Tetralogy of the Grave
Notes
Works Cited
Index