Traces of Violence – Writings on the Disaster in Paris, France

"What does it mean to write in the aftermath of political violence--of sudden and spectacular violence, as well as of enduring, even everyday violence? This book, a 'collection of shadows' surrounding the 2015 Paris attacks, is a searing set of meditations on the impossibility and necessity of writing about disaster. I am extremely grateful to Robert Desjarlais and Khalil Habrih for what they have risked in choosing to write--and to write collaboratively/contrapuntally--in the face of disaster."--Lisa Stevenson, author of Life Beside Itself: Imagining Care in the Canadian Arctic