traumatic memory, 4–6, 27, 37–38, 54, 56–58, 149, 178, 181, 190, 218, 225, 235, 245, 255–257, 266, 268, 274, 276, 282, 294n31

Minta, Stephen, 175, 179, 181–182, 185, 189–191

O’Brien, Tim, 2, 10, 19–22, 244, 247, 265–280, 284, 305n86

Going after Cacciato, 19, 244, 267, 269, 273–280

Oliver, Kelly, 50–51, 293n26

Olsen, Lance, 85–86, 297n48

pain, 9, 12, 27, 37, 50, 57–58, 80–81, 83–84, 122, 129–130, 132–133, 141, 144, 147, 149, 159, 161, 165–166, 185, 191, 196, 213–214, 216, 219, 222, 224–225, 228, 240, 242, 268–269, 283, 293n25

pain and imagination, 83–84

Parkinson–Zamora, Lois, 106–108, 112, 115, 142, 167, 183, 299n58, 299n61

postmodernism, 4, 71–75, 85, 94, 110–111, 296n43

real (the), 7–9, 13–14, 25, 32, 47, 51–53, 56, 58–70, 74–75, 77, 79, 84, 88, 90–91, 94, 97, 99, 102, 108–111, 113, 115, 120, 123–126, 147, 160, 170–171, 182, 185, 192, 202–203, 215, 259, 269, 293n28, 294n29, 299n62

realeme, 13, 15, 120–121, 126–128, 136, 143, 160–161, 168, 170, 202, 300n63

realism, 6, 9, 41, 43, 52, 57, 70, 98–99, 103, 106–108, 113, 138, 140, 167, 199, 207, 216, 265, 273, 275

mimesis, 8, 43–44, 62, 106–107, 112, 199, 206, 216

representation, 4, 6–9, 11, 26, 32–33, 35, 39–47, 51, 57–58, 62–66, 57–58, 62–66, 70, 73–81, 84, 88, 94–96, 99, 103, 106–113, 118, 123, 137, 139, 143, 159, 180, 186–187, 198–199, 215–216, 218–219, 221, 237, 242–244, 250, 252, 259, 282, 284, 287, 291n12, n13, 303n75

traumatic realism, 43–45, 138, 194

Reder, Michael, 202, 208, 303n76

repetition compulsion, 18, 32, 235, 278, 289n5

Rhys, Jean, 10–13, 19, 117–121, 143–166, 179–180, 282, 284

Wide Sargasso Sea, 10, 12, 117, 121, 143–166, 282

Rosenberg, Tina, 176–177, 302n72

Rothberg, Michael, 9–10, 44, 145, 171, 194, 285

Rushdie, Salman, 14–16, 18–20, 111, 173–175, 183, 197–216, 227–229, 234, 246, 252, 258, 260, 282–285, 303n76

Midnight’s Children, 14–15, 173, 175, 183, 183, 197–199, 204, 197–199, 204, 208–216, 227, 282

Sanga, Jaina C., 197, 206, 210, 303n77

Scarry, Elaine, 83–84, 133