What is the function each of these segments serves, their relationship to the whole, as well as to the respective titles of the works discussed?

1. In his essay, “Trauma and Narrative,” Joshua Pederson writes: “Put simply, for poststructuralists,
there is a break between word and world; for trauma theorists, there is a break between word and
wound” (100). With genre and narrative technique in mind, comparatively analyze the role of the
“Introduction” in Fyodor Dostoevsky’s autobiographical fiction, Memoirs from the House of the Dead and
of the “Preface” and “Letter” in Frederick Douglass’s autobiographical narrative, Narrative of the Life
of Frederick Douglass. What is the function each of these segments serves, their relationship to the whole, as well as to the respective titles of the works discussed? In what ways can these brief but significant sections be considered a so-called “break” between the author’s or the narrator’s word and wound, and/or a link between word and world?

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