| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 110.2

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| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 110.2 | The History Cooperative

Dominick LaCapra. History in Transit: Experience, Identity, Critical Theory. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. 2004. Pp. ix, 274. Cloth $49.95, paper $19.95.
Critical theory is intimately related to intellectual understandings of identity as the discursive conjuncture of layered subjectivities. Experience, in contrast, is often dismissed as the slippery recourse of a populist historiography, what Dominick LaCapra refers to as a compensatory drift into "unrestrained speculation, projective identification, and ventriloquism" (p. 4). This book refuses the oppositional fracturing of experience and identity, demanding an accounting.	1
LaCapra's long-standing concern with what he designates a "dialogical encounter" between immanence and transcendence, between what is within the world and open to readings of experience and representation, and what is capable of going beyond or working through, transformatively, that which is never simply "given," frames this text. Acknowledging that history is always in motion, LaCapra insists that those who practice it adopt more self-conscious and critically inquisitive stands on their identities and experiences, highlighting how this can work to good effect. At the core of the book are two chapters centrally concerned with the meaning of history, memory, and trauma, most especially the experience of the Holocaust.	. . .

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