The Traumatic Imagination:  Histories of Violence in Magical Realist Fiction
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Scholes, Robert, 62, 68–69, 99, 298n57

Schroeder, Eric James, 269–270, 273–276, 305n86

scriptor, 80, 88, 91, 296n45

Simpkins, Scott, 112, 167

simulation and simulacrum, 8, 11, 30, 62, 64–66, 68, 73–74, 77–78, 81, 90, 110, 113, 118, 123, 133, 139, 164, 171, 216, 284, 289n4, 295n37, n38, 300n62

Skibell, Joseph, 16–19, 220–221, 233–240, 242, 283–285

A Blessing on the Moon, 16–17, 233–240

slavery, 5, 9–14, 19, 37, 41, 44, 57, 117–119, 121, 123, 125, 127, 129–131, 133, 135, 137, 139, 141, 143–145, 147, 149–153, 155, 157–165, 167, 169–171, 179, 285, 300n64

spectacle, 7–9, 62–66, 111, 150, 191, 269, 295n35

Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty, 148

Tal, Kali, 29, 36, 42–43, 291n12, 292n18

testimony, 46–51, 58, 144, 158, 169, 180, 214, 216, 225, 289n3, 293n24, n26

testimonial language, 27, 46–48, 51, 53, 58

textualization of the reader, 7, 91–92, 94, 108, 114, 138, 168

Timmerman, John H., 85, 88–89, 113, 297n46

Todorov, Tzvetan, 86, 91–96, 101, 103, 297n48, 298n53

trauma, 1, 3, 5–6, 9–10, 12–23, 25–59, 69, 71, 81, 89, 94, 96, 98, 111, 117–121, 125–126, 130, 136–137, 139–140, 143–156, 158, 160–161, 164, 166, 168–171, 174–175, 178, 180–181, 189, 191, 194–197, 201, 214, 216, 218–220, 228, 230, 234–235, 237, 240, 242–247, 253, 255–257, 259–261, 265–269, 271–273, 276, 280–287, 289n3, n6, n7, n7, n8, n10, n11, n11, n12, n18, n19, n22, n27, n29, n65, n67, n68, n73, n74, 303n78

acting out, 12–13, 16, 18, 20, 32, 35, 44–45, 58, 150, 153–155, 174, 235, 246, 269, 276, 286

historical trauma, 10, 12–13, 16, 19, 34, 125, 130, 139–140, 143–144, 147, 153, 164, 171, 174–175, 201, 214, 240, 243, 255, 259, 302n74

history of the term, 25–38

loss, 5, 8, 12, 15, 19, 33–34, 46, 66, 69–70, 85, 103, 117, 134, 134, 139–140, 143, 145–147, 153, 164, 170–171, 179, 186–187, 195, 197, 201, 219, 225, 237, 239, 243, 246–247, 257, 285, 295n37, 300n68

mourning, 3, 153, 164, 247, 290n10

perpetrator’s trauma, 246, 256, 267

prosthetic trauma, 3

psychic numbing, 2, 14, 22, 48, 151, 154, 178, 194, 212, 257, 284

structural trauma, 15, 118–119, 139, 146, 197