作为文学理论，创伤理论和操演理论之间存在着内在的关联性：操演是创伤表征的过程；创伤成为操演的对象。创伤并非先天就有，而是后天形成的。对文化创伤的操演是建构创伤话语的途径。本文对文化创伤操演和创伤话语建构的探索与研究，其目的是对所研究的文学理论及批评范式进行理论上的梳理与论证。

 As literary theories, the trauma theory and the performativity theory are interrelated in that performativity is the process of trauma representation and trauma is the object of performativity. Trauma does not preexist, but becomes one. The performativity of cultural trauma is the means by which trauma discourse is constructed. Through an exploration of the performativity of cultural trauma and of the construction of trauma discourse, this article sorts out and examines the two literary theories in question and their critical paradigms.