The present article focuses on the witnessing process of the admitted poets’ effective responsiveness to the catastrophes they encountered; the poets to be studied, Holman, Anderson, Carman, and the number of nonpoets who cooperated with Holman in his project have been directly or indirectly traumatized by the aftermath of the Cold War in America. The analytical perspective draws on LaCapra’s theories on structural and historical trauma, emphasizing Laub’s witnessing level as the most significant determinant of the gestalt of interpretations. It will be followed by physical and critical phases, such as acting out and working through, coined by LaCapra, focusing on the varied poems to be scrutinized, enabling the poets to maintain their readers’ empathetic identification with their characters’ predicaments in a psychoanalytic context.
Ghodsi, Y. (2026). Revisiting the Trauma: A Study of Post Cold War Nonestablished Poetry in the Light of Laub and LaCapra’s Theories. Studies in literature and Culture: from Theory to Practice, 1(1), 33-45. doi: 10.22091/slic.2025.14138.1003
MLA
Yasaman Ghodsi. "Revisiting the Trauma: A Study of Post Cold War Nonestablished Poetry in the Light of Laub and LaCapra’s Theories". Studies in literature and Culture: from Theory to Practice, 1, 1, 2026, 33-45. doi: 10.22091/slic.2025.14138.1003
HARVARD
Ghodsi, Y. (2026). 'Revisiting the Trauma: A Study of Post Cold War Nonestablished Poetry in the Light of Laub and LaCapra’s Theories', Studies in literature and Culture: from Theory to Practice, 1(1), pp. 33-45. doi: 10.22091/slic.2025.14138.1003
VANCOUVER
Ghodsi, Y. Revisiting the Trauma: A Study of Post Cold War Nonestablished Poetry in the Light of Laub and LaCapra’s Theories. Studies in literature and Culture: from Theory to Practice, 2026; 1(1): 33-45. doi: 10.22091/slic.2025.14138.1003
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