Introduction / Martin Modlinger and Philipp Sonntag -- Trauma and ethics: telling the other's story / Colin Davis -- From collective violence to a common future: four models for dealing with a traumatic past / Aleida Assmann -- Trauma studies: contexts, politics, ethics / Susannah Radstone -- Narrating the Holocaust and its legacy: the complexities of identity, trauma and representation in Art Spiegelman's Maus / María Jesús Martínez-Alfaro -- Zero, a gaping mouth: the discourse of the camps in Herta Müller's Atemschaukel between literary theory and political philosophy / Bettina Bannasch -- Trauma, narrative and ethics in recent American fiction / Hubert Zapf -- Trauma as normalcy: pain in Philip Roth's The human stain / Rudolf Freiburg -- Trauma, shame and ethical responsibility for the death of the other in J. M. Coetzee's Waiting for the barbarians / Susana Onega.