Mariko Hori Tanaka is Professor of English at Aoyama Gakuin University, Tokyo
Yoshiki Tajiri is Professor of English at University of Tokyo
Michiko Tsushima is an Associate Professor Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at University of Tsukuba, Japan
Introduction - Mariko Hori Tanaka, Yoshiki Tajiri and Michiko Tsushima with Robert Eaglestone
Part I: Trauma symptoms
1. Beckett and trauma: father's death and the sea - Julie Campbell
2. 'Void cannot go': trauma and actor process in the theatre of Samuel Beckett - Nicholas E. Johnson
Part II: Body and subjectivity
3. Insignificant residues: trauma, face and figure in Samuel Beckett - David Houston Jones
4. 'The skin of words': trauma and skin in Watt - Michiko Tsushima
5. Bodily object voices in Embers - Anna Sigg
Part III: Historical and cultural contexts
6. Trauma and ordinary objects in Virginia Woolf and Samuel Beckett - Yoshiki Tajiri
7. Smiling tigers: trauma, sexuality and creaturely life in Echo's Bones - Conor Carville
8. The global trauma of the nuclear age in Beckett's post-war plays - Mariko hori tanaka
Index