The Literary Odyssey
Kevan Joey
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The Literary Odyssey

A Journey Through the World of Books

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In December 1997, an unknown Chinese American author named Iris Chang published The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War Two. Her passionate but error strewn account of a sixty-year-old episode of Asian political violence was a spectacular success, with over half a million books sold. This thesis asks why. Why that piece of history; why that moment; and why that author and that book? It argues the most compelling answers to these questions are found if the situation is viewed through the paradigmatic lens of trauma. It therefore offers a theoretical reading of this important h...