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A book project by Dr. Md Abu Shahid Abdullah, Assistant Professor, Department of English was published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing, a Newcastle-based publishing house, on June 14, 2022. The edited collection titled Trauma, Memory and Identity Crisis: Reimagining and Rewriting the Past includes 11 chapters contributed by authors from countries such as Bangladesh, Turkey, Egypt, Germany and Czech Republic. The book shows the way in which the victims of trauma confront the past, instead of running away from it, share their stories with others, and thus (re)assert their shattered identity. It also highlights the way in which (trauma) narratives can enable the traumatised to challenge official history and to come up with an alternative version of it. Put another way, trauma narratives provide the victims and survivors the opportunity to reimagine, to reinvent and to rewrite the past in order to secure a peaceful future, and help them find a place in history. The excerpt of the book can be found on the website of the publishing house: https://www.cambridgescholars.com/product/978-1-5275-8439-6