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Malsin, Mikaela Janet 2012-06-12T08:35:48Z 2012-06-12T08:35:48Z 2012 https://wakespace.lib.wfu.edu/handle/10339/37259 Despite many clear points of connection, the field of rhetoric has largely remained silent on the notion of trauma, or overwhelming experience. I seek to establish the ways in which trauma simultaneously creates the exigency for rhetoric and complicates its task, using Holocaust survivor Charlotte Delbo's groundbreaking memoir <italic>Auschwitz and After</italic> as a case study. I argue, drawing upon the work of Susan J. Brison, that the externalization of her memories in narrative form allows Delbo to reclaim the self devastated by trauma; the text, however, shatters conventional expectations of what constitutes a coherent narrative, as set forth by Walter Fisher in his narrative paradigm. I conclude that <italic>Auschwitz and After</italic> is significant in that it enacts the trauma it seeks to transmit, a necessary approach in the face of the loss of reason and language engendered by the Holocaust. en Wake Forest University Charlotte Delbo Holocaust literature narrative rhetoric trauma READING RHETORIC THROUGH TRAUMA: CHARLOTTE DELBO'S AUSCHWITZ AND AFTER Thesis Beasley von Burg, Alessandra Hyde, Michael J Franco, Dean Communication open.access