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Memory and Trauma: Post-Modern and Historic

It is a difference between historic memory and post-modern memory relates to trauma. Historic memory is the process of remembering something that happened in the past. A post-modern memory is a memory that is an unresolved traumatic memory. Wide Sargasso Sea, The Things They Carried, and The Seduction of History: Trauma, Re-Memory, and The Ethic of The Real all have one thing common: violence. Each experience with violence creates trauma. Their memory of this trauma affects both their historic memory and their post-modern memory because when a traumatic event happend, you cannot remember everything than. For example, on page 387, Flanagan defines Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder as a disorder “in which the encoding of memory rather than its retrieval is affected.”