Roth and Trauma contributes to the ongoing conversation among critics who focus primarily on Roth's representation of Jewish American life, on the one hand, or on his representation of Post War II America, on the other hand. Pozorski's innovative approach to the significance of history in Roth's recent fiction from the perspective of trauma theory, and her passionate prose - an echo of Roth's own fervent engagement with the ideals and failures of America - will doubtless appeal not only to students and scholars of contemporary literature and trauma studies, but also to the general reader. Readers of this book will comprehend Roth - and through his fiction, contemporary America - in novel and creative ways.
