A Rhetoric of Trauma in 9-11 Stories: A Critical Reading of Ulrich Baer's 110 Stories.

This article presents the author's comment on rhetoric of Trauma in September 11, 2001. As individuals of an earlier generation recall where they were and what they were doing when they learned that JFK had been shot, so one may recall one's own where's and what's of September 11, 2001. Psychologists inform that talking or writing about trauma is of healthy use to survivors. In a recent article that explores "trauma" as an evolving concept, Irene Kacandes finds that only within the last 100 years has the term referred to psychic wounding, and then has done so haphazardly, for "trauma" can refer both to the conditions that wound a psyche and the resulting injured state of mind.' The actual labor of crafting a story is especially therapeutic.