Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- FROM OFFICIAL HISTORY TO INDIVIDUAL AND COLLECTIVE TRAUMA -- Broken Memories of a Traumatic Past and the Redemptive Power of Narrative in the Fiction of Edwidge Danticat -- "When the World is Free": Traumatized Soldiers in Patricia Grace's Second World War Novel Tu -- Passion to Pasyon: Playing Militarism -- Poetics of Dislocation: Trauma, Language, Memory -- WOMEN AND CULTURAL / COLONIAL TRAUMA -- Trauma, Madness, and the Ethics of Narration in J.M. Coetzee's In the Heart of the Country -- "Softer than Cotton, Stronger than Steel": Metaphor and Trauma in Shani Mootoo's Cereus Blooms at Night -- Haunting Wounds: Genital Alterations, Autobiography, and Trauma -- THE AUSTRALIAN APOLOGY AND TRAUMA OF UNBELONGING -- Personal Trauma/Historical Trauma in Tim Winton's Dirt Music -- "Twisted Ghosts": Settler Envy and Historical Resolution in Andrew McGahan's The White Earth -- The Trauma of Immigration and the Ethics of Self-Positioning in Richard Flanagan's The Sound of One Hand Clapping -- Inside Out in the Land Down Under: Reading Trauma through Janette Turner Hospital's Oyster -- Notes on Contributors -- Index.