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223Following these (con)figurations of the (missed) encounter, one might conclude thattrauma focuses on the ways in which the rhetorical and formal mise en scène of witnessinghinders any direct access to the archive of history, troubling an unquestioned concept of historyand historicity that characterizes any national literary tradition. Throughout the eighteenth and thenineteenth centuries, trauma studies centered on the historical traumas of Europe. Neglected stilltoday is a thorough investigation of spectral, traumatic eventsmost of the missed eventsthattrouble witnessing outside of the master narrative. Bringing post-colonial studies into dialoguewith trauma studies allows one to investigate trauma through analepsis and anasemia and toexpand the scope of the missed encounter.