From seemingly juxtaposed disciplines, Clara Mucci and Thomas Trezise assess an established canon in trauma theory and Holocaust studies that has influenced our thinking since the 1990s. Mucci, professor of literature and psychology at the University of Chieti (Italy), reviews psychoanalytic, neurological, and literary approaches to questions of trauma, mourning, and subjectivity. Trezise, an historian and scholar of French and Italian literature at Princeton, argues that theories of trauma and the Holocaust can obfuscate survivors' stories and limit both our ability to understand their experience and our knowledge of the subject. Beautifully written and thoroughly researched, these books present some of the most